International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
Vol 12, No 3: September 2021

Electrical and environmental parameters of the performance of polymer solar cells based on P3HT:PCBM

El Hadi Chahid (Sultan Moulay Slimane University)
Mohamed Lotfi (Laboratoire Matériaux Energie Environnement,)
Osama Lotfi (RES SARL, Beni Mellal, Maroc)
My Abdelaziz Koumina (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Bio-Ressources, Environnement et Matériaux)
Rodolphe Heyd (Laboratoire de Physique)
abdessamad malaoui (Laboratoire de Physique)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2021

Abstract

The electrical and environmental parameters of polymer solar cells (PSC) provide important information on their performance. In the present article we study the influence of temperature on the voltage-current (I-V) characteristic at different temperatures from 10 °C to 90 °C, and important parameters like bandgap energy Eg, and the energy conversion efficiency η. The one-diode electrical model, normally used for semiconductor cells, has been tested and validated for the polemeral junction. The PSC used in our study are formed by the poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM). Our technique is based on the combination of two steps; the first use the Least Mean Squares (LMS) method while the second use the Newton-Raphson algorithm. The found results are compared to other recently published works, they show that the developed approach is very accurate. This precision is proved by the minimal values of statistical errors (RMSE) and the good agreement between both the experimental data and the I-V simulated curves. The obtained results show a clear and a monotonic dependence of the cell efficiency on the studied parameters.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJPEDS

Publisher

Subject

Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS, ISSN: 2088-8694, a SCOPUS indexed Journal) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The scope of the journal includes all issues in the field of Power Electronics and drive systems. ...