Light trapping for flexible organic photovoltaics

Yoonseok Park; Jana Berger; Paul Anton Will; Marcos Soldera; Bernhard Glatz; Lars Müller-Meskamp; Kurt Taretto; Andreas Fery; Andrés Fabián Lasagni; Koen Vandewal; Karl Leo

doi:10.1117/12.2229582

Light trapping for flexible organic photovoltaics

Yoonseok Park, Jana Berger, Paul Anton Will, Marcos Soldera, Bernhard Glatz, Lars Müller-Meskamp, Kurt Taretto, Andreas Fery, Andrés Fabián Lasagni, Koen Vandewal, Karl Leo

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Here we investigate light trapping substrates and electrodes for enhancing the performance of organic photovoltaics (OPVs). Their power conversion efficiency (PCE) can be improved by a factor of 1.16 using laser patterned PET substrates and by a factor of 1.13 using commercial, structured display films. Furthermore, we prepare light trapping electrodes using as flexible conductive polymer with embedded TiO2 nanoparticles, improving the PCE by a factor of 1.08 as compared to a neat polymer electrode. However, nano-imprinted conductive polymer electrodes does not provide light trapping effect due to the small size (50 nm) of the structures. Moreover flexible OPV devices, integrating the above light trapping elements, show non-degraded performance after bending tests.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Organic Photovoltaics XVII
Editors	Paul A. Lane, Ifor D. W. Samuel, Zakya H. Kafafi
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510602755
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229582
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	7th Conference on Organic Photovoltaic Devices - San Diego, United States Duration: 29 Aug 2016 → 1 Sept 2016

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9942
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	7th Conference on Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	29/08/16 → 1/09/16

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© 2016 SPIE.

Keywords

Conductive polymer
Flexible
Light trapping
Organic solar cells
Textured substrate

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Park, Y., Berger, J., Will, P. A., Soldera, M., Glatz, B., Müller-Meskamp, L., Taretto, K., Fery, A., Lasagni, A. F., Vandewal, K., & Leo, K. (2016). Light trapping for flexible organic photovoltaics. In P. A. Lane, I. D. W. Samuel, & Z. H. Kafafi (Eds.), Organic Photovoltaics XVII Article 994211 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9942). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229582

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Park, Y, Berger, J, Will, PA, Soldera, M, Glatz, B, Müller-Meskamp, L, Taretto, K, Fery, A, Lasagni, AF, Vandewal, K & Leo, K 2016, Light trapping for flexible organic photovoltaics. in PA Lane, IDW Samuel & ZH Kafafi (eds), Organic Photovoltaics XVII., 994211, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9942, SPIE, 7th Conference on Organic Photovoltaic Devices, San Diego, United States, 29/08/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2229582

Light trapping for flexible organic photovoltaics. / Park, Yoonseok; Berger, Jana; Will, Paul Anton et al.
Organic Photovoltaics XVII. ed. / Paul A. Lane; Ifor D. W. Samuel; Zakya H. Kafafi. SPIE, 2016. 994211 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9942).

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