A universal optical approach to enhancing efficiency of organic-based photovoltaic devices
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Energy & Environmental Science
- Vol. 5 (5), 6900-6904
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ee21254d
Abstract
We report a new optical approach that can be used to enhance light harvesting in many different organic-based photovoltaic cells. A transparent polymer microlens array moulded on the light incident surface increases the light path in the active layer and reduces surface reflection, resulting in a 15–60% relative increase in overall cell efficiency.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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