Optical modeling of hybrid polymer solar cells using a transmission-line model and comparison with experimental results

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1784-1791

  Stathopoulos, Nikolaos A ^a   Palilis, Leonidas C ^b   Savaidis, Stylianos P ^a   Yesayan, Stephan R ^c   Vasilopoulou, Maria ^b   Papadimitropoulos, Giorgos ^b   Davazoglou, Dimitris ^b   Argitis, Panagiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hybrid polymer solar cells; optical simulations; transmission line model; tungsten oxide

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; HYBRID POLYMER SOLAR CELLS; LIGHT INTENSITY; NORMALLY ON; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL FIELD DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL MODELING; OPTICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL WAVES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOACTIVE LAYERS; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELS; TRANSMISSION-LINE MODEL; TUNGSTEN OXIDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC LINES; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; OXIDES; POLYMERS; SOLAR CELLS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 78650065923     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2047495     Document Type: Article

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