Determination of Physical Parameters in Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Using a Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

A method is presented to extract the physical parameters of illuminated organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells based on genetic algorithms and Levenberg-Marquardt method. The solar cell model is the well known single diode equivalent circuit containing four components. The voltage dependence of the photocurrent in the organic solar cells due to electron and hole drift lengths is taken into account. The applicability of the present method is demonstrated by fitting current - voltage characteristics of poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) and [6,6]- phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) bulk-heretojunction solar cells at different light intensities and annealing temperatures.