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Plasmonic backcontact grating for P3HT:PCBM organic solar cells enabling strong optical absorption increased in all polarizations Mustafa Akin Sefunc,* Ali Kemal Okyay, and Hilmi Volkan Demir Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Department of Physics, UNAM - National Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Microelectronics Division; School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Applied Physics Division, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore *sefunc@ee.bilkent.edu.tr Abstract: In P3HT:PCBM based organic solar cells we propose and demonstrate numerically plasmonic backcontact grating architectures for strong optical absorption enhanced in both transverse-magnetic and transverse-electric polarizations. Even when the active material is partially replaced by the metallic grating (without increasing the active layer film thickness), we show computationally that the light absorption in thin-film P3HT:PCBM is increased by a maximum factor of ~21% considering both polarizations under AM1.5G solar radiation and over a half-maximum incidence angle of 45° (where the enhancement drops to its half) compared to the same cell without a grating. This backcontact grating outperforms the typical plasmonic grating placed in PEDOT:PSS layer. ©2011 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (250.5403) Plasmonics; (240.6680) Surface plasmons; (050.2770) Gratings; (040.5350) Ph