Enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film organic solar cells through the excitation of plasmonic modes in metallic gratings

Changjun Min; Jennifer Li; Georgios Veronis; Jung Yong Lee; Shanhui Fan; Peter Peumans

doi:10.1063/1.3377791

Enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film organic solar cells through the excitation of plasmonic modes in metallic gratings

Changjun Min, Jennifer Li, Georgios Veronis, Jung Yong Lee, Shanhui Fan, Peter Peumans

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We theoretically investigate the enhancement of optical absorption in thin-film organic solar cells in which the top transparent electrode is partially substituted by a periodic metallic grating. We show that the grating can result in broadband optical absorption enhancement for TM-polarized light, due to the large field enhancement in the vicinity of the strips of the grating, associated with the excitation of plasmonic modes. The overall optical absorption in the organic layers can be greatly enhanced up to ∼50% for such solar cell structures. © 2010 American Institute of Physics.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	133302
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3377791
State	Published - Mar 29 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Acknowledgements: G.V. acknowledges the support of the Louisiana Board of Regents (Contract No. LEQSF(2009-12)-RD-A-08). S.F. acknowledges the support of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (Award No KUSC1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and of DOE under Grant No. DE-FG02-07ER46426.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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