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    This document summarizes Wei E.I. Sha's presentation on plasmonic effects in organic solar cells. The presentation discusses how plasmonic nanoparticles can be used to enhance light absorption in thin organic solar cells, which normally have poor absorption due to their limited thickness. Through both simulation and experiment, the presentation shows that plasmonic nanoparticles can increase absorption by over 2-4 times by scattering light. The nanoparticles also help facilitate hole collection in the solar cells. In conclusion, plasmonic structures provide a promising approach for improving the performance of low-cost organic solar cells.

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    PIERS 2012 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic


    Solar Cells
    Wei E.I. Sha, Wallace C.H. Choy, Weng Cho Chew
    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    The University of Hong Kong
    Speaker: Wei E.I Sha
    Email: [email protected]

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (1)


    Advance of solar cell technology

    organic solar cell

    monocrystalline silicon solar cell

    amorphous/polycrystalline silicon solar cell

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (2)


    Thin-film organic solar cell

    low-cost processing
    mechanically flexible
    large-area application
    environmentally friendly
    low exciton diffusion length

    low carrier mobility

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (3)


    Working principle

    exciton diffusion
    charge separation
    charge collection

    optical absorption

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (4)


    Why optical enhancement?
    The thickness of the active layer must be smaller than
    the exciton diffusion length to avoid bulk recombination.
    As a result, the thin-film organic solar cell has poor
    photon absorption or harvesting. Plasmonic solar cell is
    one of emerging solar cell technologies to enhance the
    optical absorption.

    W.E.I. Sha, W.C.H. Choy, and W.C. Chew, Opt. Lett., 36(4), 478-480, 2011.

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (5)


    Small molecule organic solar cell

    PML

    PBC

    PBC

    Au

    PEDOT:PSS

    PML

    Lamberts cosine law

    finite-difference frequency-domain method (TE & TM)

    Au

    X.H. Li, W.E.I. Sha, W.C.H. Choy, etc, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012. In Press. doi: 10.1021/jp211237c

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (6)

    Plasmonic band edge boosted optical enhancement (theory and experiment)

    W.E.I. Sha, W.C.H. Choy, Y.P. Chen, and W.C. Chew, Appl. Phys. Lett., 99(11), 113304, 2011.

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (7)


    Bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell

    2 fold increase in total absorption!

    E active layer

    enhancement
    factors

    directional scattering

    VIE-FFT method (BiCG-STAB)

    Near-field

    Far-field

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (8)


    Comparisons to experimental results

    nanoparticles in spacer layer

    nanoparticles in active layer

    C.C.D. Wang, W.C.H. Choy, etc, J. Mater. Chem., 22, 1206-1211, 2011.
    D.D.S. Fung, L.F. Qiao, W.C.H. Choy, etc, J. Mater. Chem., 21, 16349-16356, 2011.

    W.E.I. Sha, W.C.H. Choy, and W.C. Chew, Opt. Express, 19(17), 15908-15918, 2011.

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (9)

    Hybrid plasmonic system

    good spectral overlap

    4 fold increase in total absorption!

    W.E.I. Sha, W.C.H. Choy, Y.M. Wu, and W.C. Chew, Opt. Express, 20(3), 2572-2580, 2012.

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (10)


    Multiphysics modeling using unified finite difference method
    Maxwells equation

    generation rate

    semiconductor equations

    Plasmonic Effects in Organic Solar Cells (11)


    Beyond optical absorption enhancement: facilitating hole collection!

    Acknowledgement

    Thanks for your attention!

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