Design Optimization for Organic Photovoltaic.

Optical coatings are thin layer structures deposited on the interface between two optical media in order to alter the behavior of light striking on the interface ,i.e. the active layers should absorb light with minimum loses due to reflectance. These coatings aimed at reducing reflections are also known as anti-reflection coatings (transmittance 0). The high conversion efficiencies are the result of efficient absorption of light and charge generation inside the devices. My research work dealt with developing of two numerical design techniques for automatic synthesis of the multilayer AR coatings. The principal difference from conventional methods was that this method was developed based on a short circuit current based optimization rather than conventional methods which involved optimization for reflectance and transmittances. The first one is an expansion of an earlier work by J.F.Tang and Q.Zheng. The second one is gradient based method, which works efficiently and faster. The notable differences are the first one doesnt require an initial starting design, whereas the second one needs an initial starting design. The two Solvers (MATLAB based) which I wrote are , 1. STAT I/P Statistical Input method, 2. BFGS maximization BroydenFletcherGoldfarbShanno, which was modified and employed for this purpose, The results obtained using three different optimization solvers were studied, tabulated here to show solver performances. commercially available The results were compared with the following standard ones, Glass/ITO/P3HT/PCBM/BCP/Ag, and

Glass/Ag/P3HT/PCBM/BCP/Ag. The following stack samples were used in each case for comparison studies. Stack samples.
Table 1 Stack Sample Profiles

G1 G2 G3

H/L/H/L + ITO(1500 nm) H/L/H/L + (Ag 5nm) H/L/H/L + (Ag 10nm)

G4

H/L/H/L + (Ag 20nm)

As this figure below shown is one among the results obtained, (NP Needle optimization was a solver written by Dr. OConnor, my Advisor).

Comparison of solvers
5.5 Short circuit current (Jsc) 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 G1 G2 G3 G4 Sample Stacks
Figure 1Comparison of OPV optimization solvers

STAT I/P BFGS NOP Max/Ag=10 Max/ITO=150