High efficient plastic solar cells fabricated with a high-throughput gravure printing method

被引:102
作者
Kopola, P. [1 ]
Aernouts, T. [2 ]
Guillerez, S. [3 ]
Jin, H. [1 ]
Tuomikoski, M. [1 ]
Maaninen, A. [1 ]
Hast, J. [1 ]
机构
[1] VTT, FIN-90571 Oulu, Finland
[2] IMEC, B-3001 Louvain, Belgium
[3] CEA INES RDI, F-73370 Le Bourget Du Lac, France
关键词
Organic photovoltaics; Polymer solar cell; Gravure printing; Solution processing; POLYMER; PERFORMANCE;
D O I
10.1016/j.solmat.2010.05.027
中图分类号
TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号
0807 ; 0820 ;
摘要
We report on polymer-based solar cells prepared by the high-throughput roll-to-roll gravure printing method. The engravings of the printing plate, along with process parameters like printing speed and ink properties, are studied to optimise the printability of the photoactive as well as the hole transport layer. For the hole transport layer, the focus is on testing different formulations to produce thorough wetting of the indium-tin-oxide (ITO) substrate. The challenge for the photoactive layer is to form a uniform layer with optimal nanomorphology in the poly-3-hexylthiophene (P3HT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) blend. This results in a power conversion efficiency of 2.8% under simulated AM1.5G solar illumination for a solar cell device with gravure-printed hole transport and a photoactive layer. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:1673 / 1680
页数:8
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