Absorption Enhancement of Organic Solar Cell using Aluminum Oxide as a Photonic Crystal

Abstract

Enhancement of light absorption in solar cell presents a strong challenge to its overall performance. We analyzed an Organic Solar Cell (OSC) with Photonic Crystal (PC) structure using Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Aluminum oxide (Al2O3) has been used as photonic crystal structure and the lattice structure has been chosen to be hexagonal. Absorption enhancement has been observed by changing the height of the Hexagonal Lattice structure (HLS). When height is increased to 0.26 and radius to period ratio (r/a ratio) is set to 0.4, there is a significant increase of absorption in the middle wavelength region approximately from 463 nm to 575 nm and a significant decrease in lower wavelength. As the height is increased further, these changes in absorption begins to increase and at a certain value, these changes begin to reverse. Almost same phenomena occur when r/a ratio is 0.2 and 0.3 taken at approximately same height.

Enhanced Optical Management in Organic Solar Cells by Virtue of Square-Lattice Triple Core-Shell Nanostructures

“…The absorption of light at different layers of an OSC with the introduction of square-lattice SiO 2 @Ag@SiO 2 triple core-shell nanospheres was plotted in the graph shown in Figure 10 . Light trapping in the photoactive layer was the compared with the light absorption in the work proposed in [ 23 , 39 , 40 ]. We can say that the effect of triple core-shell nanospheres above the PEDOT:PSS layer was at a higher percentage of 80%, compared to introduction of triple core-shell nanospheres in the other layers of OSC with a ZnO optical spacer layer.…”