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Photovoltaic characterization of hybrid bulk heterojunction solar cell incorporated gold nanoparticles embedded in active layer
Syarif N.F.a, Hidayat R.a, Wulandari P.a
a Physics of Magnetism and Photonic Research Division, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, 40132, Indonesia
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624529070653{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner layout=”boxed”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1624695412187{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Abstract” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]© 2020 Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Switzerland.We attempt to study the effect of gold nanoparticles embedded into the active polymer of regioreguler poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) on the charge kinetic to enhance the performance of bulk-heterojunction solar cell. It has been known that the generation of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) would both increase the photon absorption and improve the efficiency of charge separation. Synthesis of gold nanoparticles stabilized by oleylamine (AuOA) was carried out by reduction method and resulted in the spherical shape of nanoparticles with a diameter size of ~12 nm. The absorbance spectra show the typical of surface plasmon peak of AuOA in solution at ~527 nm. Fabrication of inverted bulk-heterojunction solar cell device was done in the configuration of ITO/ZnO/P3HT:PCBM:AuOA/PEDOT:PSS/Ag. Incorporation of AuOA in polymer solution is clearly detected from the enhanced absorbance peak resulted from UV-Vis measurement and the mix solution of P3HT:PCBM:AuOA is quite stable in the concentration of AuOA less than 10 wt%. In our experiment, fabricated solar cell reveals the enhancement in current density at short circuit condition (JSC) from 44.57 mA/cm2 to 56.14 mA/cm2 with the addition of 3.9 wt% AuOA in polymer solution along with the enhancement of power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 4.07% to 6.23% as characterized by J-V measurement. In our case, the voltage at open circuit condition (VOC) of the device does not show significant improvement.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Author keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Bulk heterojunction solar cells,Hybrid bulk heterojunctions,Localized surface plasmon resonance,Open circuit conditions,Poly-3-hexylthiophene,Power conversion efficiencies,Short-circuit conditions,Surface plasmon peak[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Indexed keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Gold nanoparticle,Inverted bulk heterojunction solar cell,J-V measurement,Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Funding details” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]The research described herein is supported by Penelitian Dasar Unggulan Perguruan Tinggi Kemenristek-DIKTI 2019 project, contract no: 2/E1/KP.PTNBH/2019. One of us (PW) would like to thank Prof. Kaoru Tamada for the fruitful discussions and the opportunity to do experiment of gold nanoparticles in Institute for Material Chemistry and Engineering, Division of Fundamental Chemistry, Nanomaterial and Interfaces, Kyushu University, Japan.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”DOI” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.860.34[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Widget Plumx[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]