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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2001 Meeting
Section: Electricity and Magnetism
Title:
ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS – A REVIEW
Authors:
Stefan Antohe
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, P.O.Box MG-11,
Bucharest-Magurele, 76900 ROMANIA
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Abstract:
In this work are summarized the electrical and photoelectrical properties of the organic photovoltaic cells based on the organic thin layers. Starting with the single-layer photovoltaic structures, the ITO/CuPc/Al and ITO/TPyP/Al has been prepared and characterised, where the organic layers of CuPc and TPyP, are Copper Phthalocyanine and 5,10,15,20-Tetra (4-Pyrydil)21H,23H-Porphine, respectively. The photovoltaic structures based on the p-n heterojunction present at the interface between two organic layers, like, ITO/CuPc/TPyP/Al and ITO/Chl a/TPyP/Al, exhibits stronger spectral sensitivity and better spectral matching to a solar spectrum than Schottky cells using either CuPc or TPyP, layer. Three-layered organic solar cells with an interlayer of codeposited dyes of p-type CuPc and n-type TPyP, between the respective dye layers were also prepared and characterised. They showed increased power conversion efficiency, due to the efficient carrier photogeneration in the enlarged photoactive region from the codeposited layer. The spectral sensitization of an a-Si: H solar cell using an organic layer was also obtained. The action spectrum was extended by 30 nm to longer wavelength range, using a 100 nm thick layer of TPyP. An exciton dissociation process explains the sensitization to the TPyP/a-Si: H interface, which gives rise of higher quantum efficiency at longer wavelengths.
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