Optical-electrical simulation of organic solar cells: Influence of light trapping by photonic crystal and ZnO spacer on electrical characteristics

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Vervisch, Wilfried ^a   Rivière, Guillaume ^a   Vedraine, Sylvain ^a   Biondo, Stéphane ^a   Torchio, Philippe ^a   Duché, David ^a   Simon, Jean Jacques ^a   Escoubas, Ludovic ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LIGHT-TRAPPING; METALLIC ELECTRODES; MODELING RESULTS; OPTICAL MODELING; ORGANIC SOLAR CELL; PHOTOVOLTAIC PROPERTY; POISSON'S EQUATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ZNO;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POISSON EQUATION; ZINC OXIDE;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84864192267     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4712292     Document Type: Article

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