Numerical Simulation and Performance Optimization of Organic Solar Cell with Improved Efficiency

Shupty, Rubaiyat Islam; Pramanik, Abrar Shahriar; Uddin, Md Zarif

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dc.contributor.author	Shupty, Rubaiyat Islam
dc.contributor.author	Pramanik, Abrar Shahriar
dc.contributor.author	Uddin, Md Zarif
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-25T10:20:18Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-25T10:20:18Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-30
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1290
dc.description	Supervised by Prof. Dr. Md. Ruhul Amin, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering(EEE), Islamic University of Technology(IUT), Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Organic solar cells (OSCs) are considered one of the most important upcoming photovoltaic technologies. Enhancing the overlap between absorption spectra of OSCs and solar spectrum is one way to boost their performance. In this work an organic solar cell is introduced and characterized which uses P3HT:PCBM(Donor-poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl): Accepter-[6,6]PhenylC61butyricacidmethylester)andPTB7:PC70BM(DonorPoly[[4,8bis[(2ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2b:4,5b’]dithiophene2,6diyl][3fluoro2[(2ethylhexyl)carbonyl]Thieno[3,4b]thiophenediyl]]:Accepter-[6,6]-Phenyl-C70-butyric acid methyl ester) as photoactive absorbing layer respectively. Throughout the work, a 3D software simulation called GPVDM is used to model J-V characteristics for various designs. Tandem organic solar structures were implemented to increase performance even further. An illumination level of 1000 W/m2 (AM1.5G standard) and a concentration level of 1 Sun is considered for all the simulation in the work. The top and bottom subcells' active layer thicknesses were varied to optimize the design. Using different materials for the HTL , ETL , and intermediate layer strengthened our structure even further the change in efficiency was plotted against a single increasing parameter, with all other parameters held constant. After analyzing those curves, we reached the optimum thickness for top front sub cell 330nm and lower bottom sub cell 55nm and the final design is proposed which yields power conversion efficiency 11.11% .We also discussed about the potential improvisations of our design that we are optimistic about.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Board Bazar, Gazipur-1704, Bangladesh	en_US
dc.title	Numerical Simulation and Performance Optimization of Organic Solar Cell with Improved Efficiency	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US