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Enhanced Light Harvesting in Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells using an Optical Metal Cavity Configuration
Author(s) -
Pastorelli Francesco,
RomeroGomez Pablo,
Betancur Rafael,
MartinezOtero Alberto,
MantillaPerez Paola,
Bonod Nicolas,
Martorell Jordi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
advanced energy materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.08
H-Index - 220
eISSN - 1614-6840
pISSN - 1614-6832
DOI - 10.1002/aenm.201400614
Subject(s) - opacity , materials science , organic solar cell , optoelectronics , solar cell , transparency (behavior) , visible spectrum , metal , optics , physics , composite material , polymer , political science , law , metallurgy
An optical metal cavity configuration is used to trap near infrared light in a semitransparent organic solar cell. The efficiency for such cell, which has a higher than 20% transparency in the visible region, is equal to 90% of the efficiency of the corresponding opaque cell.