Capacitance Voltage of P3HT: Graphene Nanocomposites Based Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

• Main Authors: Mahmood, MR (Author), Saad, PSM (Author), Shariff, NSM (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; THICKNESS
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 After the discovery of conjugated polymer and bulk-heterojunction concept, organic solar cell has gain many interest in the photovoltaic world. The main problem for organic solar cells is that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is still considered low even though it is much more low cost compared to inorganic solar cell such as Silicon (Si). Therefore, the objective of this research is to investigate the effect of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) thickness and concentration towards the capacitance voltage of the P3HT: Graphene solar cells. A simulation software called SCAPS is used in this research to simulate the effect on the solar cells. SCAPS is specialized for photovoltaic simulation studies. The solar cell's structure will be drawn inside the simulation and the parameters for each layers is inserted. The voltage range will be fixed and the capacitance voltage will be calculated by the software and all the results will be put into one graph. For thickness results, P3HT's layer at a thickness of 100nm has the lowest value of capacitance and clearly shows a peak at 0.86V. Where for the concentration, 1x10(16) cm(-3) is the only value that clearly shows there is the built-in voltage (V-bi) in the solar cells. Therefore, P3HT's thickness of 100 nm and concentration of 1x10(16) cm(-3) has the best overall results.