High-Efficiency Solar Cells with a Planar Nanostructure Junction

Authors: K Sambasiva Rao and Lucky Agarwal*

DOI: 10.23880/nnoa-16000202

Volume 5, Issue 3

Abstract

Considering the current research interest in Organic / Inorganic (ZnO) hybrid solar cells structures in developing advanced photovoltaic devices, three different types of solar cell structures are proposed. In the proposed structures, hybrid solar cell composed of ZnO nanoparticles are used as an electron-acceptor material and PEDOT:PSS is intruded in between the nanoparticles, which reported to possesses power-conversion efficiency in excess of 8%. The use of p-ZnO layer results to improve the device performance on the rigid substrate. The power-conversion efficiency of the developed solar cell was found to be as high as 10% when measured under AM 1.5G illumination. Further, simulations have been carried out whose results are in line with experimental results.

Keywords: p-n Homojunction; Hybrid Solar Cell; Photovoltaic Effect; PEDOT: PSS

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