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The active layer thickness dependence of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells with two different donor and acceptor material combination is studied. For one organic solar cell, poly(3-hexylthiophene): P3HT is taken as the electron donor with phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester: PCBM as the electron acceptor. Another active layer blend has poly(9,9-dioctylindenofluorene-co-benzothiadiazole): PIF8BT and N′-bis(1-ethylpropyl)-3,4,9,10-perylene tetracarboxy diimide: PDI as the donor-acceptor material. We simulate the cells with the two different active layer combinations and investigate the organic solar cell parameters with respect to the active layer thickness variation.
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Koul, S., Hakim, NuD. (2019). Investigation of Active Layer Thickness Variation on the Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells. In: Sharma, R., Rawal, D. (eds) The Physics of Semiconductor Devices. IWPSD 2017. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97604-4_51
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