Inverted organic solar cells based on Cd-doped TiO2 as an electron extraction layer

A. Ranjitha; N. Muthukumarasamy; M. Thambidurai; Dhayalan Velauthapillai; A. Madhan Kumar; Zuhair M. Gasem

doi:10.1016/j.spmi.2014.05.040

Inverted organic solar cells based on Cd-doped TiO₂ as an electron extraction layer

A. Ranjitha^*, N. Muthukumarasamy, M. Thambidurai, Dhayalan Velauthapillai, A. Madhan Kumar, Zuhair M. Gasem

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Abstract

Nanocrystalline Cd-doped TiO₂ thin films have been prepared by sol-gel method. X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that TiO₂ and Cd-doped TiO₂ nanocrystalline thin films are of anatase phase. The average grain size of TiO₂ and Cd-doped TiO₂ nanocrystalline thin films was found to lie in the range of 15-18 nm. Solar cells have been fabricated with a device structure of ITO/Cd-doped TiO ₂/P3HT:PC₇₁BM/MoO₃/Al configuration. The power conversion efficiency of the inverted organic solar cell with Cd-doped TiO ₂ is 3.06% and is higher than that of TiO₂ based organic solar cell (2.64%).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	114-122
Number of pages	9
Journal	Superlattices and Microstructures
Volume	74
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spmi.2014.05.040
State	Published - Oct 2014

Keywords

Doping
Inverted organic solar cells

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General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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