Disordered polymer antireflective coating for improved perovskite photovoltaics

• Main Authors: Thangavel, Nivethaa R., Adhyaksa, Gede W. P., Dewi, Herlina A., Tjahjana, Liliana, Bruno, Annalisa, Birowosuto, Muhammad D., Wang, Hong, Mathews, Nripan, Mhaisalkar, Subodh
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering; Absorption; Light
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147018
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Light management through low index medium, such as antireflective coating (ARC) provides practical solution to improve the efficiency of photovoltaics. However, a brute-force development of photonic structure on ARC is not necessarily useful, because of random scattering associated with impediment of light transmission. Here, we leverage the concept of disorder, rather than random, structured on ARC for improving efficiency without modifying original architecture of thin-film photovoltaics. We demonstrate a disordered polymer that leads to a total reflectance of 5% while demonstrating a high transmission of 94% across 300 to 820 nm wavelength. Next, we find that the arrangement of disordered points and line arrays constructing the polymer seems to be the key to control bandwidth performance of the ARC. Finally, we apply this into Cs0.05(MA0.17FA0.83)0.95Pb(I0.83Br0.17)3 perovskite, and through experiments with wave-optics and full-device simulation, show a 1.6-fold absorption gain leading to 19.59% power-conversion-efficiency by the disordered ARC.