Plasmonic Organic Solar Cells - Charge Generation and Recombination

Contents

About the Authors

Abstract

1 Introduction

1.1 Organic Photovoltaics: Background

1.2 Materials: Conjugated Polymers

1.3 Operation Principles and Physical Insights in Organic Solar Cells (OSCs)

1.4 Organic Solar Cell Architectures

1.5 State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities in OSCs

1.6 Surface Plasmons for Improving Light Harvesting Efficiency

1.7 Other Contributions to Organic Photovoltaic Performance Improvement

1.8 State-of-the-Art and Challenges in Plasmonic Organic Solar Cells

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2 Surface Plasmon Resonance

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Surface Plasmon Polariton

2.3 Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance

2.4 Summary

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3 Characterization Plasmonic Organic Photovoltaic Devices

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Optical Spectroscopy

3.2.1 Steady-State and Transient Absorption Spectroscopies

3.2.2 Time-Integrated Photoluminescence and Time-Resolved Photoluminescence

3.2.3 Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy

3.3 Electrical Characterization

3.3.1 Current Voltage (I-V) Measurement

3.3.2 Internal Photon to Current Efficiency (IPCE) Measurement

3.4 Numerical Simulation

3.4.1 Optical Simulation

3.4.2 Electrical Simulation

3.5 Summary

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4 Plasmonic Entities within the Charge Transporting Layer

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Case Study (1): Silver Nano-Triangle Arrays in PEDOT:PSS

4.3 Case Study (2): Gold Nanowire Network in PEDOT:PSS

4.4 Case Study (3): Single Silver Nanowire in PEDOT:PSS

4.5 Summary and Conclusions

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5 Plasmonic Entities within the Active Layer

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Experimental Details

5.3 Results and Discussion

5.4 Summary and Conclusions

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6 Concluding Remarks

6.1 Implications for the Design of Hybrid Plasmonic OPV Devices

6.2 Summary and Outlook

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