Indoor photovoltaics is an emerging technology that could power the Internet of Things (IoT)devices with low energy requirements. The conventional silicon-based photovoltaics is notsuitable for indoor lighting conditions, opening the door for organic photovoltaics (OPV).When fabricating OPV devices, a transparent and conductive electrode is needed. Indium tinoxide is a common transparent for research, but it is expensive and difficult to use in roll-toroll (R2R) production. PEDOT:PSS is a cheap conductive polymer compatible with R2Rprocessing, but its relatively low conductivity limits cell size and geometric fill factor. Addingsilver nanowires to the PEDOT:PSS solution could improve conductivity but raises the risk ofshort-circuiting the devices. In this thesis, organic photovoltaic devices have been fabricatedusing electrodes based on a commercially available solution of PEDOT:PSS dispersed withsilver nanowires to test its viability. Devices utilizing the novel electrode demonstrated aforward current density of 2,905 mA/cm2, dark current density of -1,25E-05 mA/cm2, shortcircuit current density of 0,037 mA/cm2, open-circuit voltage of 0,630 V, and fill factor of76,6%. Performance for devices with the a reference electrode of pure PEDOT:PSS was aforward current density of 0,94 mA/cm2, dark current density of -2,35E-05 mA/cm2, shortcircuit current density of 0,0341 mA/cm2, open-circuit voltage of 0,630 V, and fill factor of76%. However, the resistance in the novel electrode appears to degrade faster than in thereference electrode, even in an inert atmosphere, which motivates further studies ondegradation mode and methods to prevent it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:liu-188492 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Raihle, Lucas |
| Publisher | Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för fysik, kemi och biologi |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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