title: Semitransparent polymer solar cells with 5% power conversion efficiency using photonic crystal reflector.
abstract: Efficient semitransparent polymer solar cells (ST-PSCs) have been fabricated with one-dimensional photonic crystals (1DPCs) as a high reflector. The 1DPCs are composed of several pairs of WO3 (65.8 nm)/LiF (95.5 nm). By optimizing the pairs of WO3/LiF, 1DPCs can reflect the light back into the ST-PSCs due to the photonic band gap, when the high reflectance range of 1DPCs is matched with absorption spectrum of the active layer. ST-PSCs with 8 pairs of 1DPC exhibit an attractive performance. The short-circuit current density (Jsc) and power conversion efficiency (PCE), respectively, reach to 9.76 mA/cm(2) and 5.16% compared to 8.12 mA/cm(2) and 4.24% of the reference ST-PSCs without 1DPCs. A maximum enhancement of 20.2% in Jsc is obtained and the PCE increases by ~21.7%. This approach provides a simple, fascinating and promising method to realize the highly efficient ST-PSCs toward applications.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics and ‡College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Wenjuan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Yongbing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Weiyou
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shengping
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruan