Plasmon enhancement of organic photovoltaic efficiency in bulk-heterojunction cells of P3HT/PCBM

• Main Author: Lau, Vincent Koon Tuck.
• Other Authors: Subodh Gautam Mhaisalkar
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Organic/Polymer electronics; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Energy materials; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Photonics and optoelectronics materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15306
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An organic photovoltaic (OPV) cell was shown to have increased power conversion efficiency (PCE) due to an enhancement of optical absorption via the coupling of photon with the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in spherical Au nanoparticles deposited on the photo-anode. Work was also done to show the...