Improvement in photovoltaic performance of anthracene-containing PPE-PPV polymer-based bulk heterojunction solar cells with silver nanoparticles

TORE, Nesrin; PARLAK, Elif; TUMAY, Tulay; KAVAK, Pelin; SARIOGLAN, Serife; BOZAR, Sinem; GÜNEŞ, Serap; ULBRICHT, Christoph; EGBE, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s11051-014-2298-1

Improvement in photovoltaic performance of anthracene-containing PPE-PPV polymer-based bulk heterojunction solar cells with silver nanoparticles

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TORE N., PARLAK E. A., TUMAY T. A., KAVAK P., SARIOGLAN S., BOZAR S., ...More

JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH, vol.16, no.3, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)

Publication Type: Article / Article
Volume: 16 Issue: 3
Publication Date: 2014
Doi Number: 10.1007/s11051-014-2298-1
Journal Name: JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the effect of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) in the active layer of anthracene-containing poly(p-phenylene-ethynylene)-alt-poly(p-phenylene-vinylene):phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (AnE-PVstat:PCBM)-based bulk heterojunction solar cells. By incorporating Ag NPs of 6 nm in diameter, the power conversion efficiency of AnE-PVstat:PCBM solar cells was improved to 3.10 % from a value of 2.46 % for the solar cells fabricated without nanoparticles. Moreover, ISOS-L-1 stability test showed that the lifetime of the cells was also significantly improved by doping Ag NPs into the active layer.