Enhanced light-harvesting by integrating synergetic microcavity and plasmonic effects for high-performance ITO-free flexible polymer solar cells
Journal
Advanced Functional Materials
Journal Volume
25
Journal Issue
4
Pages
567-574
Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Abstract
In this work, a high?performance ITO?free flexible polymer solar cell (PSC) is successfully described by integrating the plasmonic effect into the ITO?free microcavity architecture. By carefully controlling the sizes of embedded Ag nanoprisms and their doping positons in the stratified device, a significant enhancement in power conversion efficiency (PCE) is shown from 8.5% (reference microcavity architecture) to 9.4% on flexible substrates. The well?manipulated plasmonic resonances introduced by the embedded Ag nanoprisms with different LSPR peaks allow the complementary light?harvesting with microcavity resonance in the regions of 400�V500 nm and 600�V700 nm, resulting in the substantially increased photocurrent. This result not only signifies that the spectral matching between the LSPR peaks of Ag nanoprisms and the relatively low absorption response of photoactive layer in the microcavity architecture is an effective strategy to enhance light?harvesting across its absorption region, but also demonstrates the promise of tailoring two different resonance bands in a synergistic manner at desired wavelength region to enhance the efficiency of PSCs.
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Publisher
Wiley-VCH Verlag
Type
journal article