화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advanced Materials, Vol.12, No.3, 189-189, 2000
Trapping light in polymer photodiodes with soft embossed gratings
Increasing the conversion efficiency is very important in photovoltaic devices, as is cheap and simple technology. Here is demonstrated a soft embossing technique for printing a submicrometer grating with an elastomeric mold into an optically active polymer layer in a photovoltaic device (see Figure). The light trapping due to the grating pattern enhances the photoconversion efficiency by more than 25 % at normal light incidence (see also inside front cover).