A preliminary investigation into hybrid photovoltaic cells with organic phthalocyanines and amorphous silicon heterojunction

Huan Zhao; Zhiqun He; Xiaojin Zhang; Zhi Zhang; Adel Diyaf; Anna H N Lind; Chunjun Liang; John I B Wilson

doi:10.1088/0022-3727/48/19/195102

A preliminary investigation into hybrid photovoltaic cells with organic phthalocyanines and amorphous silicon heterojunction

Huan Zhao, Zhiqun He, Xiaojin Zhang, Zhi Zhang, Adel Diyaf, Anna H N Lind, Chunjun Liang, John I B Wilson

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Hybrid photovoltaic cells take the advantages of silicon in charge carrier separation and transport and organic dyes in strong complementary light absorption. Photovoltaic responses from a set of hybrid solar cells based on amorphous silicon and phthalocyanine dyes of double- or triple-layer heterojunction structures were investigated, which were found to have thickness dependence with the organic active layers. It was found that the photocurrent contributions from organic layers are limited, although they are strong light absorbers. The main photocurrent contributions are from the silicon counterpart.

Original language	English
Article number	195102
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Volume	48
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/48/19/195102
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2015

Keywords

Amorphous silicon
Hybrid
Photocurrent
Photovoltaic cells
Phthalocyanine

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Condensed Matter Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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