DOI: 10.1063/1.3039076. An inverted organic solar cell employing a sol-gel derived ZnO electron selective layer and thermal evaporated MoO3 hole selective layer

An inverted organic solar cell employing a sol-gel derived ZnO electron selective layer and thermal evaporated MoO3 hole selective layer

10.1063/1.3039076

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Abstract

We reported an efficient inverted bulk-heterojunction [regioregular of poly(3-hexylthiophene): (6,6)-phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester] solar cell with a highly transparent sol-gel derived ZnO film as electron selective layer and MoO3 as hole selective layer. By modifying the precursor concentration of sol from 0.75 to 0.1M, the optical transmittance of ZnO film increases from 75% to 95%. This improvement in transmittance increases the short-circuit density of inverted solar cell from 5.986 to 8.858 mA/cm2 without sacrificing the open-circuit voltage and fill factor of the device. We also demonstrated that the device incorporated with MoO3 has a larger open-circuit voltage and fill factor than the device without MoO3. Power conversion efficiency of 3.09% was achieved under simulated AM 1.5G illumination of 100 mW/cm2.

Bibliography

Kyaw, A. K. K., Sun, X. W., Jiang, C. Y., Lo, G. Q., Zhao, D. W., & Kwong, D. L. (2008). An inverted organic solar cell employing a sol-gel derived ZnO electron selective layer and thermal evaporated MoO3 hole selective layer. Applied Physics Letters, 93(22).

Authors 6

A. K. K. Kyaw (first)
X. W. Sun (additional)
C. Y. Jiang (additional)
G. Q. Lo (additional)
D. W. Zhao (additional)
D. L. Kwong (additional)

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Type	When
Created	16 years, 8 months ago (Dec. 3, 2008, 7:53 p.m.)
Deposited	2 years, 2 months ago (June 23, 2023, 5:54 a.m.)
Indexed	1 week, 3 days ago (Aug. 23, 2025, 9:19 p.m.)
Issued	16 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2008)
Published	16 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2008)
Published Online	16 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 3, 2008)
Published Print	16 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2008)

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BibTeX

@article{Kyaw_2008, title={An inverted organic solar cell employing a sol-gel derived ZnO electron selective layer and thermal evaporated MoO3 hole selective layer}, volume={93}, ISSN={1077-3118}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3039076}, DOI={10.1063/1.3039076}, number={22}, journal={Applied Physics Letters}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Kyaw, A. K. K. and Sun, X. W. and Jiang, C. Y. and Lo, G. Q. and Zhao, D. W. and Kwong, D. L.}, year={2008}, month=dec }

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