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Optical Modeling for Polarization-dependent Optical Power Dissipation of Thin-film Organic Solar Cells at Oblique Incidence

  • Kim, Jungho (Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Jung, Sungyeop (Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Jeong, Inkyung (Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University)
  • Received : 2011.11.16
  • Accepted : 2012.01.05
  • Published : 2012.03.25
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Abstract

We present the optical models and calculation results of thin-film organic solar cells (OSCs) at oblique incidence of light, using the transfer matrix method. The simple expression for the optical power dissipation is derived at oblique incidence for s- and p-polarized light. The spatial distribution of the electric field intensity, the optical power density, and the optical power dissipation are calculated in both s- and p-polarized light with respect to the incidence angle. We identify how the light absorption efficiency for p-polarized light becomes relatively larger than that for s-polarized light as the incidence angle increases.

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