18 April 2022 Absorption improvement of organic solar cells using grating structures in active layer and antireflection coating layer
Mojtaba Shahraki, Hossein Malekpoor
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Abstract

The effects of grating structure on the performance of PTB7  :  PC70BM organic solar cells (OSCs) are considered. First, an OSC with a flat antireflection coating (ARC) is studied, and the effects of grating structures inside the active area of this solar cell are investigated. It is conceivable to increase the short circuit current density (JSC) of solar cells using dissimilar gratings. Nonetheless, there are essential limitations that constrain usage of this method inside the OSCs. Conducting optimization processes based on particle swarm optimization algorithm, it is found that the highest achievable JSC for three-grating structure is only 3.2% higher than the single structure grating. Consequently, we have used the grating structure inside the ARC layer of the solar cell. It is observed that using the Gaussian grating ARC layer could increase the overall JSC of the solar cell by 21.1%, which is omnidirectional, as well.

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Mojtaba Shahraki and Hossein Malekpoor "Absorption improvement of organic solar cells using grating structures in active layer and antireflection coating layer," Journal of Nanophotonics 16(2), 026001 (18 April 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.16.026001
Received: 7 January 2022; Accepted: 29 March 2022; Published: 18 April 2022
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KEYWORDS
Absorption

Solar cells

Organic photovoltaics

Polarization

Antireflective coatings

Particle swarm optimization

Seaborgium

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