TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing the efficiency of organic solar cell under indoor light via controlling optical absorption
AU - Vincent, Premkumar
AU - Shim, Jae Won
AU - Bae, Jin Hyuk
AU - Kim, Hyeok
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Indoor lighting is a major source of energy consumption in buildings. However, reusability of the power output from the light source can help to recycle a small portion of the expended power. Third generation solar cells, such as organic solar cells (OSC), and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), are semi-transparent and can be fabricated on flexible substrates. These desirable characteristics make them suitable candidates to be employed in applications such as smart windows, low-light harvesting systems, and wireless sensor nodes. Illuminance of household lighting is usually in the range of 500 lux. Our researched focused on optimizing the device structure of a conventional OSC to maximize its power conversion efficiency (PCE). When illuminated under a 500 lux light emitting diode (LED) light source. We have integrated optical modelling with empirical fitting of experimental data to conclude the most optimized structure for the low-light harvesting indoor photovoltaic (IPV) device.
AB - Indoor lighting is a major source of energy consumption in buildings. However, reusability of the power output from the light source can help to recycle a small portion of the expended power. Third generation solar cells, such as organic solar cells (OSC), and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), are semi-transparent and can be fabricated on flexible substrates. These desirable characteristics make them suitable candidates to be employed in applications such as smart windows, low-light harvesting systems, and wireless sensor nodes. Illuminance of household lighting is usually in the range of 500 lux. Our researched focused on optimizing the device structure of a conventional OSC to maximize its power conversion efficiency (PCE). When illuminated under a 500 lux light emitting diode (LED) light source. We have integrated optical modelling with empirical fitting of experimental data to conclude the most optimized structure for the low-light harvesting indoor photovoltaic (IPV) device.
KW - FDTD optical simulation
KW - indoor photovoltaics
KW - low-light energy harvesting
KW - optimized solar cell structure
KW - organic solar cells
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U2 - 10.1080/15421406.2018.1456077
DO - 10.1080/15421406.2018.1456077
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046533338
SN - 1542-1406
VL - 660
SP - 85
EP - 89
JO - Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
JF - Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals
IS - 1
ER -
