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- Title
Optimized Thin-Film Organic Solar Cell with Enhanced Efficiency.
- Authors
Farooq, Waqas; Musarat, Muhammad Ali; Iqbal, Javed; Kazmi, Syed Asfandyar Ali; Khan, Adnan Daud; Alaloul, Wesam Salah; Baarimah, Abdullah O.; Elnaggar, Ashraf Y.; Ghoneim, Sherif S. M.; Ghaly, Ramy N. R.
- Abstract
Modification of a cell's architecture can enhance the performance parameters. This paper reports on the numerical modeling of a thin-film organic solar cell (OSC) featuring distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) pairs. The utilization of DBR pairs via the proposed method was found to be beneficial in terms of increasing the performance parameters. The extracted results showed that using DBR pairs helps capture the reflected light back into the active region by improving the photovoltaic parameters as compared to the structure without DBR pairs. Moreover, implementing three DBR pairs resulted in the best enhancement gain of 1.076% in power conversion efficiency. The measured results under a global AM of 1.5G were as follows: open circuit voltage (Voc) = 0.839 V; short circuit current density (Jsc) = 10.98 mA/cm2; fill factor (FF) = 78.39%; efficiency (η) = 11.02%. In addition, a thermal stability analysis of the proposed design was performed and we observed that high temperature resulted in a decrease in η from 11.02 to 10.70%. Our demonstrated design may provide a pathway for the practical application of OSCs.
- Subjects
PHOTOVOLTAIC power systems; SOLAR cell efficiency; SOLAR cells; OPEN-circuit voltage; THERMAL stability; SHORT circuits; HIGH temperatures
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2021, Vol 13, Issue 23, p13087
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su132313087