Performance analysis of P3HT:PCBM based organic solar cell

An analytical model of the photocurrent-voltage characteristics has been utilized to analyze important properties of organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells, e.g., generation rate, electron current density, hole current density and the total photocurrent density. The generation rate of P3HT:PCBM based solar cell critically depends on the absorption coefficient. For measuring the electron and hole current density solution of carrier continuity equation is used in MATLAB. Then the effects of electron and hole current density on the performance of P3HT solar cells have been studied. The result of this paper demonstrate that current density due to electron plays a major role in photocurrent production while hole current density has a very little impact. Effect of electron and hole mobility variation are investigated separately which indicate that increasing electron mobility are extremely important than hole mobility to increase the power conversion efficiency of P3HT:PCBM blend. The dependence of electron and hole current densities as a function of the blend thickness is also analyzed.