Large-area flexible colloidal photonic crystal film stickers for light trapping applications

Tomas Kohoutek; Mikhail Parchine; Maria Bardosova; Hiroshi Fudouzi; Martyn Pemble

doi:10.1364/OME.8.000960

Large-area flexible colloidal photonic crystal film stickers for light trapping applications

Tomas Kohoutek
, Mikhail Parchine
, Maria Bardosova
, Hiroshi Fudouzi
, Martyn Pemble

University College Cork

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We report on a way to make and transfer large-area (100 cm²) free-standing 2D or 3D colloidal photonic crystal (CPC) films deposited using a roll-to-roll Langmuir-Blodgett technique from silica or polymer particles. Using this approach, a 'sticker' composed of a monolayer array of silica particles with 120 nm diameter in polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) glue was transferred onto a commercial flexible organic photovoltaic cell improving its conversion efficiency by some 5.2-8.3% at off-normal 0°-45° angles. The results presented here open up a range of new options for application of CPC films in the areas of photovoltaics and lightemitting devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	960-967
Number of pages	8
Journal	Optical Materials Express
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.8.000960
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

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