Microcavity-enhanced light-trapping for highly efficient organic parallel tandem solar cells.

Zuo, Lijian; Chueh, Chu-Chen; Xu, Yun-Xiang; Chen, Kung-Shih; Zang, Yue; Li, Chang-Zhi; Chen, Hongzheng; Jen, Alex K-Y · Adv Mater · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A high-performance parallel tandem solar cell employing ultra-thin Ag as the intermediate anode is demonstrated, which comprises a semitransparent front sub-cell and a microcavity assisted back sub-cell. In addition to the extended optical field as a result of the tandem architecture, the prominent microcavity resonance formed in the back sub-cell enables such a parallel tandem configuration to possess high light utilization efficiency (the peak EQE value is over 80%) and a high photovoltaic performance of 9.2%. This study establishes an effective architecture that can be generally applicable to all organic materials for improving their performance.