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Localized surface plasmon resonance enhanced organic solar cell with gold nanospheres

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  • Qiao, Linfang
  • Wang, Dan
  • Zuo, Lijian
  • Ye, Yuqian
  • Qian, Jun
  • Chen, Hongzheng
  • He, Sailing

Abstract

We use gold nanospheres (Au NSs) to improve the performance of polymer organic solar cells. Au NSs with a diameter of about 5Â nm or 15Â nm were doped into the buffer layer of organic solar cells. We attribute the efficiency improvement to the size-dependent localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effect of Au NSs, which can enhance the light harvest ability of active layer around the Au NSs, and increase the probability of the exciton generation and dissociation. Our results show that solar cells doped with 15Â nm-diameter Au NSs exhibit significant improvement of the efficiency (from 1.99% to 2.36%), while solar cells doped with only 5Â nm-diameter Au NSs did not give obvious improvement of the performance.

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  • Qiao, Linfang & Wang, Dan & Zuo, Lijian & Ye, Yuqian & Qian, Jun & Chen, Hongzheng & He, Sailing, 2011. "Localized surface plasmon resonance enhanced organic solar cell with gold nanospheres," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 88(3), pages 848-852, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:88:y:2011:i:3:p:848-852
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    1. Shu-Ju Tsai & Mihaela Ballarotto & Hung-Chih Kan & Raymond J. Phaneuf, 2015. "Effect of Extended Extinction from Gold Nanopillar Arrays on the Absorbance Spectrum of a Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cell," Energies, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-14, February.
    2. Liu, Liqun & Meng, Xiaoli & Liu, Chunxia, 2016. "A review of maximum power point tracking methods of PV power system at uniform and partial shading," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 53(C), pages 1500-1507.
    3. Ishaque, Kashif & Salam, Zainal & Shamsudin, Amir & Amjad, Muhammad, 2012. "A direct control based maximum power point tracking method for photovoltaic system under partial shading conditions using particle swarm optimization algorithm," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 414-422.
    4. Duan, Huiling & Xuan, Yimin, 2014. "Enhanced optical absorption of the plasmonic nanoshell suspension based on the solar photocatalytic hydrogen production system," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 114(C), pages 22-29.
    5. Ishaque, Kashif & Salam, Zainal & Mekhilef, Saad & Shamsudin, Amir, 2012. "Parameter extraction of solar photovoltaic modules using penalty-based differential evolution," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 297-308.

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