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Organic polymer solar cell using low temperature deposited AZO/Ag/AZO transparent electrodes

ZONG-LIANG TSENG1,* , LUNG-CHIEN CHEN1, YI-CHUN TSAI2, SHENG-YUAN CHU2,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Abstract

T he electrical, optical, and structural properties of indium free Al doped ZnO (AZO)/Ag/AZO triple layer electrodes deposited by r oom temperature sputtering without post treatments were investigated . T he conductivity of the AZO/Ag/AZO triple layer electrodes grown on glass substrates can be improved by the insertion of an Ag layer The best figure of merit value (Φ TC ) was 39.9×10 3 Ω 1 for the AZO/Ag/AZO electrodes with 8 nm thick Ag layer. Moreover, bulk heterojunction organic polymer solar cell s based on the AZO/Ag/AZO triple layer and AZO single layer electrodes were fabricated for a comparative study. The polymer solar cells using AZO/Ag/AZO transparent electrodes exhibited higher performance than the cell using pure AZO electrodes, due to much lower sheet resistance of the electrode. This implie s that indium free AZO/Ag/AZO triple layer electrodes are a n appropriate transparent ele ctrode for low cost and low temperature processing organic photovoltaics..

Keywords

Multilayer, Polymer solar cell Electrode, Transparent TCO.

Citation

ZONG-LIANG TSENG, LUNG-CHIEN CHEN, YI-CHUN TSAI, SHENG-YUAN CHU, Organic polymer solar cell using low temperature deposited AZO/Ag/AZO transparent electrodes, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 11, 5-6, May-June 2017, pp.324-327 (2017).

Submitted at: May 1, 2016

Accepted at: June 7, 2017