Plasmonic organic solar cell and its absorption enhancement analysis using cylindrical Ag nano-particle model based on finite difference time domain (FDTD)

Author

Kim, Seongku ; Zhu, Jinfeng ; Shen, Huajun ; Xue, Mei ; Wang, Kang L. ; Yu, Zhibin ; Li, Lu ; Park, JeongHun ; Pei, Qibing ; Park, GyeChoon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

1-6 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report the plasmon-assisted photocurrent enhancement in Ag nanoparticles (NPs) embedded PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells, and theoretically investigate the causes of the improved optical absorption based on a cylindrical Ag-NPs model which is simulated with a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The proposed cylindrical Ag-NPs model is able to explain the optical absorption enhancement by the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) modes, and to provide a further understanding of Ag-NPs shape parameters which play an important role to determine the broadband absorption phenomena in plasmonic organic solar cells.

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; light absorption; nanoparticles; photoconductivity; photoemission; plasmonics; silver; solar cells; surface plasmon resonance; Ag; FDTD model; LSPR mode; PEDOT:PSS-P3HT:PCBM organic solar cell; cylindrical nanoparticle model; finite difference time domain method; localized surface plasmon resonance mode; optical absorption enhancement analysis; plasmon-assisted photocurrent enhancement; plasmonic organic solar cell; Absorption; Electric fields; Finite difference methods; Optical surface waves; Photovoltaic cells; Plasmons; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1223-4

Type

conf

Filename

5950193