The band-gap enhanced photovoltaic structure

Nir Tessler

doi:10.1063/1.4948383

The band-gap enhanced photovoltaic structure

Nir Tessler

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

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We critically examine the recently suggested structure that was postulated to potentially add 50% to the photo-conversion efficiency of organic solar cells. We find that the structure could be realized using stepwise increase in the gap as long as the steps are not above 0.1 eV. We also show that the charge extraction is not compromised due to an interplay between the contact's space charge and the energy level modification, which result in a flat energy band at the extracting contact.

Original language	English
Article number	183503
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	108
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948383
State	Published - 2 May 2016

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