Efficient charge collection in hybrid polymer/TiO2 solar cells using poly(ethylenedioxythiophene)/polystyrene sulphonate as hole collector
- 28 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 86 (14)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1890468
Abstract
We report a study of the optimization of power conversion efficiency in hybrid solar cells based on nanostructured titanium dioxide and a poly[2-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-5-methoxy-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV) based conjugated polymer. Charge collection efficiency is enhanced by introducing a poly(ethylenedioxythiophene)/polystyrene sulphonate (PEDOT) layer (under the gold electrode) as the hole collector. Device performance is maximized for a device with a net active layer thickness of 100 nm. The optimized device has peak external quantum efficiencies ≈40% at the polymer’s maximum absorption wavelength and yield short circuit current density ⩾2mAcm−2 for air mass (AM) 1.5 conditions (100mWcm−2, 1 sun). The AM 1.5 open circuit voltage for this device is 0.64 V and the fill factor is 0.43, resulting in an overall power conversion efficiency of 0.58%.Keywords
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