Controlled 3D Interfacing of Three Components Thin Films for Photovoltaics

2013

One of the main problems related to the low performance of the organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, concerns the low mobility of the materials forming the heterojunction. For this reason, there is competition between the sweep-out and recombination of the photogenerated carriers within the thin film bulk heterojunction (BHJ). To overcome this problem, it is usual to operate by reducing the thickness of the active layer, so that the recombination of charge carriers is inhibited. This choice, however, also translates into a lower absorption of light by the active film itself. Plasmonic structures allow to reduce the "physical" thickness of heterojunction, maintaining constant the "optical" thi…