Charge transport and absorption study of metal nanoparticle plasmonics for organic photovoltaics

A hybrid plasmonic nanostructure of an optically sensitive heterojunction organic film incorporating metal nanoparticles is fabricated. From the Charge Extraction in Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) measurements, the mobility of this hybrid plasmonic nanostructure has been experimentally extracted to be at least one order of the magnitude higher than that of the organic film without metal nanoparticles. The measured absorption spectrum also shows the increasing of the intensity by around 28{\%} as well as the broadening of the spectrum. The theoretical calculation confirms this broadband optical absorption enhancement results from localized surface plasmon resonance. The optimization of the density of the metal nanoparticles has been done to achieve the best performance for the photovoltaic devices.