TY - GEN
T1 - Performance analysis of P3HT:PCBM based organic solar cell
AU - Karim, Nusrat
AU - Mime, Farha Islam
AU - Islam, Md Rafiqul
AU - Mehedi, Ibrahim Mustafa
PY - 2017/4/26
Y1 - 2017/4/26
N2 - An analytical model of the photocurrent-voltage characteristics has been utilized to analyze important properties of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells, e.g., generation rate, electron current density, hole current density and the total photocurrent density. The generation rate of P3HT:PCBM based solar cell critically depends on the absorption coefficient. For measuring the electron and hole current density solution of carrier continuity equation is used in MATLAB. Then the effects of electron and hole current density on the performance of P3HT solar cells have been studied. The result of this paper demonstrate that current density due to electron plays a major role in photocurrent production while hole current density has a very little impact. Effect of electron and hole mobility variation are investigated separately which indicate that increasing electron mobility are extremely important than hole mobility to increase the power conversion efficiency of P3HT:PCBM blend. The dependence of electron and hole current densities as a function of the blend thickness is also analyzed.
AB - An analytical model of the photocurrent-voltage characteristics has been utilized to analyze important properties of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells, e.g., generation rate, electron current density, hole current density and the total photocurrent density. The generation rate of P3HT:PCBM based solar cell critically depends on the absorption coefficient. For measuring the electron and hole current density solution of carrier continuity equation is used in MATLAB. Then the effects of electron and hole current density on the performance of P3HT solar cells have been studied. The result of this paper demonstrate that current density due to electron plays a major role in photocurrent production while hole current density has a very little impact. Effect of electron and hole mobility variation are investigated separately which indicate that increasing electron mobility are extremely important than hole mobility to increase the power conversion efficiency of P3HT:PCBM blend. The dependence of electron and hole current densities as a function of the blend thickness is also analyzed.
KW - Active layer
KW - Bulk-heterojunction solar cell
KW - P3HT:PCBM blend
KW - Power conversion efficiency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019242110&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ECACE.2017.7913017
DO - 10.1109/ECACE.2017.7913017
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:85019242110
T3 - ECCE 2017 - International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering
SP - 826
EP - 830
BT - ECCE 2017 - International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering, ECCE 2017
Y2 - 16 February 2017 through 18 February 2017
ER -