Complete Solution-Processed Semitransparent and Flexible Organic Solar Cells: A Success of Polyimide/Ag-Nanowires- and PH1000-Based Electrodes with Plasmonic Enhanced Light Absorption

Jing Wang; Xiangfei Liang; Jianing Xie; Xiaolong Yin; Jinhao Chen; Tianfu Gu; Yueqi Mo; Jianqing Zhao; Shumei Liu; Donghong Yu; Jibin Zhang; Lintao Hou

doi:10.3390/nano12223987

Complete Solution-Processed Semitransparent and Flexible Organic Solar Cells: A Success of Polyimide/Ag-Nanowires- and PH1000-Based Electrodes with Plasmonic Enhanced Light Absorption

Jing Wang, Xiangfei Liang, Jianing Xie, Xiaolong Yin, Jinhao Chen, Tianfu Gu, Yueqi Mo, Jianqing Zhao, Shumei Liu, Donghong Yu^*, Jibin Zhang, Lintao Hou

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Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been widely studied due to the advantages of easy fabrication, low cost, light weight, good flexibility and sufficient transparency. In this work, flexible and semitransparent OSCs were successfully fabricated with the adoption of both polyimide/silver nanowires (PI/AgNW) and a conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS named PH1000 as the transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs). It is demonstrated that PI/AgNW is more suitable as a cathode rather than an anode in the viewpoint of its work function, photovoltaic performance, and simulations of optical properties. It is also found that the light incidence from PH1000 TCE can produce more plasmonic-enhanced photon absorption than the PI/AgNW electrode does, resulting in more high power conversion efficiency. Moreover, a high light transmittance of 33.8% and a decent efficiency of 3.88% are achieved for the whole all-flexible semitransparent device with only 9% decrease of resistance in PI/AgNW after 3000 bending cycles. This work illustrates that PI/AgNW has great potential and bright prospect in large-area OSC applications in the future.

Original language	English
Article number	3987
Journal	Nanomaterials
Volume	12
Issue number	22
ISSN	2079-4991
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12223987
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2022

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We thank Key Projects of Joint Fund of Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund of Guangdong Province (2019B1515120073, 2019B090921002), Research Fund of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology (2020B1212030010), NSFC Project (61774077), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Micro Display (No.2020B121202003), Guangdong Science and Technology Research Foundation (2020A1414010036) for financial support. Support from Sino-Danish Center (SDC) for Education and Research is fully acknowledged. J.Z. acknowledges the support of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M683191) and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2020A1515110527).

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Ag nanowires
flexible
organic solar cells
plasmonic
polyimide
semitransparent

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Wang, J., Liang, X., Xie, J., Yin, X., Chen, J., Gu, T., Mo, Y., Zhao, J., Liu, S., Yu, D., Zhang, J., & Hou, L. (2022). Complete Solution-Processed Semitransparent and Flexible Organic Solar Cells: A Success of Polyimide/Ag-Nanowires- and PH1000-Based Electrodes with Plasmonic Enhanced Light Absorption. Nanomaterials, 12(22), Article 3987. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12223987

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