Efficiency improvement of PCDTBT solar cells with silver nanoparticles

PARLAK E. A., TUMAY T. A., TORE N., SARIOGLAN S., KAVAK P., TURKSOY F.

SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS, cilt.110, ss.58-62, 2013 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 110
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.solmat.2012.12.002
  • Dergi Adı: SOLAR ENERGY MATERIALS AND SOLAR CELLS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.58-62
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We synthesized silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) with particle sizes similar to 6 nm, and also investigated the effect of Ag NPs on the performance of polymer solar cells. It is seen that Ag NPs improved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of poly[N-9 ''-hepta-decanyl-2,7-carbazole-alt-5,5-(4',7'-di-2-thieny1-2',1',3'-benzothiadiazole) (PCDTBT) solar cells. PCE increased from 0.65 to 1.72 with incorporation of Ag NPs. Hole and electron recombination time (tau(n)) was calculated with impedance spectroscopy as 0.4 ms for PCDTBT solar cells with nanoparticles and 1.26 ms for PCDTBT solar cells without nanoparticles. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.