Polymer Solar cell

by
Chandra Mohan Singh Negi
Dept. of Electronics
Banasthali Vidyapith ,
Rajasthan
 Outline

Introduction
Background
Previous work
Traditional Cells vs. Organic
Major challenges
Applications
conclusions
 Introduction

Konarka
Cons:
Pros: low ambient stability
Tailoring of opto-electronic properties strongly bound excitons
large areas Short exciton diffusion length 5-
low temperatures (RT) 20 nm.
processing from solution low mobility of charge carriers
roll to roll manufacturing μ n (c-Si) > 1000 cm2/Vs

μh (polymer) ≈ 0.1
light weight
cm2/Vs
transparent
difficult to obtain low band-gap
low cost…….maybe… materials
Background
 Previous work on Solar cells

20x-100x 500x Cu(In,Ga)Se2 ~ 1-2 um c-Si ~ 180 um

How photovoltaic solar cells work?
Traditional Cells vs. Organic

100nm
100 nm
100 nm

Bulk Heterojunction
Device architecture and Photovoltaic
parameters
5

Charge separation layer

0
200nm

Current (mA/cm2)
150nm
-5 100nm

-10

-15

-20
-0.9 -0.6 -0.3 0.0 0.3 0.6 0.9
Voltage (V)

Device FF (%) VOC (V) JSC (mA/cm2) EFF (%)

100nm 61.9 .740 11.55 5.29

150nm 56.9 .750 13.74 5.87
 Major challenges

Stability & Life time

Inadequate efficiency

Competition with existing Si industry

 Applications

Off-grid electricity generation to the

remote location

Low-cost, environment friendly energy

solution

Space application due to light weight

Building integrated photovoltaics.

 Future research
1.Ternary blends based solar cells.
2.Low band gap materials.
3.Fullerene free solar cells.
4.Tandem solar cells
 Conclusions
Solar energy is infinitely available.

High production of silicon solar cell is the major

obstacle for widespread deployment.

OSCs find new niches of applications related to light

weight and flexibility.

OSCs are probably be the cost-effective solution for

our large-scale future energy problems.

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