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Nanopartikel emas dapat meningkatkan efisiensi sel surya organik

Peneliti dari University of California-Los Angeles USA, Chinese Academy of Sciences-China, dan Yamagata University-Jepang berhasil menemukan bahwa dengan menggabungkan nanopartikel emas dan fotovoltaik organik dapat meningkatkan daya efisiensi sel surya secara signifikan berkat efek plasmonic. Organik fotovoltaik lebih tipis dan mempunyai potensi untuk diproduksi dengan biaya yang lebih rendah dibandingkan sel surya konvensional berbahan silikon. Namun, penggunaannya secara luas masih terhalang salah satunya dengan daya efisiensinya yang masih lebih rendah. Struktur fotovoltaik tandem polimer (Sumber : ACS Nano) Kolaborasi peneliti yang dipimpin oleh Prof. Yang Yang dari UCLA yang juga adalah direktur dari Nano Renewable Energy Center di California Nanosystem Institute UCLA mencoba memasukan nanopartikel emas diantara dua sel surya polimer dengan struktur seperti sandwich sehingga membentuk struktur sel surya tandem yang merupakan gabungan dua sel surya. Lapisan nanopartikel emas mampu meningkatkan efisiensi konversi sampai sebesar 20% dengan membentuk medan elektromagnetik yang kuat didalam lapisan fotovoltaik organik melalui efek plasmonic. Efek plasmonic menyebabkan cahaya terkonsentrasi sehingga lebih banyak cahaya yang terabsorb oleh lapisan fotovoltaik organik. Peningkatan efisiensi dari 5.22% menjadi 6.24% untuk sel surya tandem polimer berhasil dicapai hanya dengan menyisipkan lapisan nanopartikel emas diantara dua sel surya polimer. Struktur berlapis tersebut dapat diaplikasikan ke berbagai jenis polimer, membuka potensi untuk tercapainya sel surya multi-layer berefisiensi tinggi.
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Gold Nanoparticles Increase Polymer Tandem Solar Cell Efficiency


Researchers from the University of California Los Angeles, Beijing's Chinese Academy of

Science and Japan's Yamagata University have shown that incorporating gold nanoparticles into organic photovoltaics can significantly improve the cells' power conversion via plasmonic effects. Organic photovoltaic solar cells are much thinner and less expensive to produce than conventional silicon solar cells, but they lag behind in their ability to efficiently convert sunlight into electricity. Researchers led by Yang Yang at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, sandwiched a layer of gold nanoparticles between two light-absorbing subcells in a tandem polymer solar cell. The interconnecting layer of gold nanoparticles enhanced power conversion by as much as 20 percent by creating a strong electromagnetic field inside the thin organic photovoltaic layers via the plasmonic effect. The plasmonic effect concentrates light so that much more of it can be absorbed. The resulting plasmonic-enhanced polymer tandem solar cell overcomes the difficulties involved in incorporating metal nanostructures into the overall device structure. "We have successfully demonstrated a highly efficient plasmonic polymer tandem solar cell by simply incorporating gold nanoparticles layer between two subcells," Yang said. "The plasmonic effect happening in the middle of the interconnecting layer can enhance both the top and bottom subcells simultaneously a 'sweet spot' leading to an improvement in the power conversion efficiency of the tandem solar cell from 5.22 to 6.24%. The enhancement ratio is as high as 20 percent." Experimental and theoretical results demonstrate that the enhancement effect was attained from local near-field enhancement of the gold nanoparticles. The proposed interlayer structures as an open platform can be applied to various polymer materials, leading to opportunities for highly efficient, multi-stacked tandem solar cells.
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