Fill-factor and performance optimization in bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Pereira ◽  
A. J. Trindade ◽  
M. G. Santos ◽  
J. Gomes
2016 ◽  
Vol 845 ◽  
pp. 224-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danila Saranin ◽  
Marina Orlova ◽  
Sergey Didenko ◽  
Oleg Rabinovich ◽  
Andrey Kryukov

This article presents the results of research output voltage characteristics of solar cells on an organic basis with the use of P3HT: PCBM system. There were produced organic solar cells in a coating in air, current-voltage characteristics were measured. It was determined the characteristic influence of a substrate cleaning and annealing temperature of layers applied on fill factor and conversion efficiency.


Author(s):  
Nur Shakina Mohd Shariff ◽  
Puteri Sarah Mohamad Saad ◽  
Mohamad Rusop Mahmood

There has been an increasing interest towards organic solar cells after the discovery of conjugated polymer and bulk-heterojunction concept. Eventhough organic solar cells are less expensive than inorganic solar cells but the power conversion energy is still considered low. The main objective of this research is to investigate the effect of the P3HT’s thickness and concentration towards the efficiency of the P3HT:Graphene solar cells. A simulation software that is specialize for photovoltaic called SCAPS is used in this research to simulate the effect on the solar cells. The solar cell’s structure will be drawn inside the simulation and the parameters for each layers is inserted. The result such as the open circuit voltage (Voc), short circuit current density (Jsc), fill factor (FF), efficiency (η), capacitance-voltage (C-V) and capacitance-frequency (C-f) characteristic will be calculated by the software and all the results will be put into one graph.


2020 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 108260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy N. Luponosov ◽  
Alexander N. Solodukhin ◽  
Artur L. Mannanov ◽  
Petr S. Savchenko ◽  
Yury Minenkov ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
David Garcia Romero ◽  
Lorenzo Di Mario ◽  
Giuseppe Portale ◽  
Maria Antonietta Loi

The control of morphology and microstructure during and after the active layer processing of bulk-heterojunction solar cells is critical to obtain elevated fill factors and overall good device performance. With...


2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (15) ◽  
pp. 153903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Wu ◽  
Huidong Zang ◽  
Yu-Che Hsiao ◽  
Xitian Zhang ◽  
Bin Hu

Soft Matter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (29) ◽  
pp. 6743-6751
Author(s):  
Joydeep Munshi ◽  
TeYu Chien ◽  
Wei Chen ◽  
Ganesh Balasubramanian

The effect of solution processing conditions on the elasto-morphology of a bulk heterojunction layer reveals a trade-off between thermo-mechanical stability and performance in organic solar cells.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3596
Author(s):  
Alexander N. Solodukhin ◽  
Yuriy N. Luponosov ◽  
Artur L. Mannanov ◽  
Petr S. Savchenko ◽  
Artem V. Bakirov ◽  
...  

Star-shaped donor-acceptor molecules are full of promise for organic photovoltaics and electronics. However, the effect of the branching core on physicochemical properties, charge transport and photovoltaic performance of such donor-acceptor materials in single-component (SC) and bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells has not been thoroughly addressed. This work shows the comprehensive investigation of six star-shaped donor-acceptor molecules with terminal hexyldicyanovinyl blocks linked through 2,2′-bithiophene π-conjugated bridge to different electron-donating cores such as the pristine and fused triphenylamine, tris(2-methoxyphenyl)amine, carbazole- and benzotriindole-based units. Variation of the branching core strongly impacts on such important properties as the solubility, highest occupied molecular orbital energy, optical absorption, phase behavior, molecular packing and also on the charge-carrier mobility. The performance of SC or BHJ organic solar cells are comprehensively studied and compared. The results obtained provide insight on how to predict and fine-tune photovoltaic performance as well as properties of donor-acceptor star-shaped molecules for organic solar cells.


2017 ◽  
Vol 751 ◽  
pp. 435-441
Author(s):  
Wantana Koetniyom ◽  
Anusit Keawprajak ◽  
Kanpitcha Jiramitmongkon ◽  
Udom Asawapirom

This research was focused on the effect of solid crystallization additive namely 1,4-dichlorobenzene (PDCB) in the 1:2 (w/w) active layer of benzothiadiazole/thiophene-based copolymers (PFTBzTT) to [6,6]-phenyl-C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) on the morphology and performance of bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells. The active layer was deposited by spin-coating with chloroform solutions by different PDCB additive concentrations from 0-52 mg/ml. The inclusion of additive into the polymer solution was able to improve the performance of BHJ solar cells. The maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 0.84% achieved for a cell with PDCB concentration of 36 mg/ml after annealing at 180 °C for 20 min. The XRD and TEM techniques used to analyse the crystal structure and morphology of the thin films. From these results were found that PDCB additive presented higher level of PCBM crystal structure by more aggregation of PCBM and a larger extent of phase separation than those of the films without additive. The AFM results demonstrated that the optimum PDCB concentration and annealing process helped PCBM aggregated into micron sized crystal rods.


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