skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays

Abstract

Here, we demonstrate enhanced absorption in solar cells and enhanced light emission in OLEDs by light interaction with a periodically structured microlens array. We simulate n-i-p perovskite solar cells with a microlens at the air-glass interface, with rigorous scattering matrix simulations. The microlens focuses light in nanoscale regions within the absorber layer enhancing the solar cell. Optimal period of ~700 nm and microlens height of ~800-1000 nm, provides absorption (photocurrent) enhancement of 6% (6.3%). An external polymer microlens array on the air-glass side of the OLED generates experimental and theoretical enhancements >100%, by outcoupling trapped modes in the glass substrate.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Ames Lab. and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
  2. Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
  3. Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Ames Lab., Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1362277
Report Number(s):
IS-J-9332
Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087; OPEXFF
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AC02-07CH11385
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; nanomaterials; polymers; optoelectronics; solar energy

Citation Formats

Peer, Akshit, Biswas, Rana, Park, Joong -Mok, Shinar, Ruth, and Shinar, Joseph. Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1364/OE.25.010704.
Peer, Akshit, Biswas, Rana, Park, Joong -Mok, Shinar, Ruth, & Shinar, Joseph. Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.010704
Peer, Akshit, Biswas, Rana, Park, Joong -Mok, Shinar, Ruth, and Shinar, Joseph. 2017. "Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.010704. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1362277.
@article{osti_1362277,
title = {Light management in perovskite solar cells and organic LEDs with microlens arrays},
author = {Peer, Akshit and Biswas, Rana and Park, Joong -Mok and Shinar, Ruth and Shinar, Joseph},
abstractNote = {Here, we demonstrate enhanced absorption in solar cells and enhanced light emission in OLEDs by light interaction with a periodically structured microlens array. We simulate n-i-p perovskite solar cells with a microlens at the air-glass interface, with rigorous scattering matrix simulations. The microlens focuses light in nanoscale regions within the absorber layer enhancing the solar cell. Optimal period of ~700 nm and microlens height of ~800-1000 nm, provides absorption (photocurrent) enhancement of 6% (6.3%). An external polymer microlens array on the air-glass side of the OLED generates experimental and theoretical enhancements >100%, by outcoupling trapped modes in the glass substrate.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.25.010704},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1362277}, journal = {Optics Express},
issn = {1094-4087},
number = 9,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 59 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Nanophotonic perovskite solar cell architecture with a three-dimensional TiO 2 nanodendrite scaffold for light trapping and electron collection
journal, January 2016


Absorption Enhancement in Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Films with Embedded Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles
journal, July 2015


Plasmonic-enhanced perovskite solar cells using alloy popcorn nanoparticles
journal, January 2015


Light-trapping in perovskite solar cells
journal, June 2016


Pyramidal surface textures for light trapping and antireflection in perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells
journal, January 2014


Numerical simulation and light trapping in perovskite solar cell
journal, April 2016


Plasmonic-Induced Photon Recycling in Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
journal, July 2015


Enhanced efficiency of organic and perovskite photovoltaics from shape-dependent broadband plasmonic effects of silver nanoplates
journal, September 2015


Enhancement of Perovskite-Based Solar Cells Employing Core–Shell Metal Nanoparticles
journal, August 2013


Reducing optical losses in organic solar cells using microlens arrays: theoretical and experimental investigation of microlens dimensions
journal, January 2015


Photonic band structures solved by a plane-wave-based transfer-matrix method
journal, April 2003


Optical properties and limiting photocurrent of thin-film perovskite solar cells
journal, January 2015


Complex Refractive Index Spectra of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 Perovskite Thin Films Determined by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Spectrophotometry
journal, December 2014


Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells
journal, September 2010


Nano-photonic and nano-plasmonic enhancements in thin film silicon solar cells
journal, October 2014


Nano-Photonic Structures for Light Trapping in Ultra-Thin Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
journal, January 2017


Soft holographic interference lithography microlens for enhanced organic light emitting diode light extraction
journal, January 2011


Microporous phase-separated films of polymer blends for enhanced outcoupling of light from OLEDs
journal, January 2011


Works referencing / citing this record:

Formation, growth and applications of femtoliter droplets on a microlens
journal, January 2018


Microlens array enhanced upconversion luminescence at low excitation irradiance
journal, January 2019


Expanding the toolbox for lanthanide-doped upconversion nanocrystals
journal, July 2019


Structurally assisted super black in colourful peacock spiders
journal, May 2019


The Applications of Polymers in Solar Cells: A Review
journal, January 2019