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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/JOSK.2012.16.1.006

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)
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Journal of the Optical Society of Korea / v.16, no.1, 2012 , pp. 6-12 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Organic solar cell; Optical modeling; Oblique incidence; Transfer matrix method;
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