《Light management in PCPDTBTPC70BM solar cells A comparison》.pdf

Organic Electronics 13 (2012) 615–622 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Organic Electronics journal homepage: www.else /locate/orgel Light management in PCPDTBT:PC70BM solar cells: A comparison of standard and inverted device structures Steve Albrecht a, Sebastian Schäfer a, Ilja Lange a, Seyfullah Yilmaz b, Ines Dumsch b, Sybille Allard b, Ullrich Scherf b, Andreas Hertwig c, Dieter Neher a,⇑ a Universität Potsdam, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Soft Matter Physics, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany b Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Macromolecular Chemistry and Institute for Polymer Technology, Gauss-Strasse 20, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany c Bundesanstalt für Materialwissenschaften (BAM), Unter den Eichen 44-46, D-12203 Berlin, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We compare standard and inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells composed of Received 25 October 2011 PCPDTBT:PC70BM blends. Inverted devices comprising 100 nm thick active layers exhibited Received in revised form 13 December 2011 short circuit currents of 15 mA/cm2, 10% larger than in corresponding standard devices. Accepted 28 December 2011 Modeling of the optical field distribution in the different device stacks proved that this Available online 16 January 2012 enhancement originates from an increased absorption of incident light in the active layer. Internal quantum efficiencies (IQEs) were obtained from the direct comparison of experi- Ke