Design and analysis the characteristics of a cost-effective polymer based bulk heterojunction tandem solar cell

Author

Hossain Pantho, Md Jubaer ; Junnat, Noor A. ; Alam, Mohammad Jahangir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

519

Abstract

In this paper, a device model that describes the current-voltage characteristics of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cell has been developed. Two organic PV cells of two different materials are cascaded together to form a tandem organic solar cell. In the design, PPV is implemented as the top cell and P3HT:PCBM blend is used as bottom cell. The simulation has been carried out using Silvaco ATLAS software. The power curve is also derived. Furthermore, the ideal efficiency and the Fill Factor of the tandem cell have been predicted from the curve. The stability of the model is ensured by introducing a thin buffer layer of ZnO coated on top of the solar cell.

Keywords

buffer layers; polymer blends; solar cells; P3HT:PCBM blend; Silvaco ATLAS software; current-voltage characteristics; fill factor; organic PV cells; polymer based bulk heterojunction tandem solar cell; polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cell; power curve; tandem organic solar cell; thin buffer layer; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Polymers; Stability analysis; Zinc oxide; Fill Factor; exciton; heterojunction; solar cell; tandem;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4167-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2014.7026910

Filename

7026910