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Effect of transport layer on polymer - fullerene derivative bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell performance using transmission circuit model analysis
K. L. Usha Kumary1, M. Pratheek2, A. Ashfak3, T. A. Shahul Hameed4, P. Predeep5.
Polymer-fullerene derivative bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic photovoltaic cell (OPV) is
one of the encouraging devices to harvest solar energy where transport layers carry the
momentous role in performance and stability. In this work, the effect of C60 as an electron
transport layer in a BHJ device composed of Poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) and
[6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is investigated by impedance
spectroscopy (IS) and modelled using circuit models – the transmission circuit (TC) model
and electrochemical polarization model. The effective lifetime and mobility of carriers were
also extracted. It is seen that the fullerene C60 transport layer effectively reduces bulk
resistance with biasing voltage.
Affiliation:
- LBS Centre for Science and Technology, Kerala, India
- National Institute of Technology, Calicut, Kerala, India
- TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India
- TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, India
- National Institute of Technology, Kerala, India
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