Large-area organic photovoltaic module-Fabrication and performance

被引:125
作者
Tipnis, Ritesh [1 ]
Bernkopf, Jan [1 ]
Jia, Shijun [1 ]
Krieg, John [1 ]
Li, Sergey [1 ]
Storch, Mark [1 ]
Laird, Darin [1 ]
机构
[1] Plextronics Inc, Pittsburgh, PA 15238 USA
关键词
Organic photovoltaics; P3HT:PCBM; Plexcore; Module fabrication; Lifetime; Solar cells; SOLAR-CELLS;
D O I
10.1016/j.solmat.2008.11.018
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
Here we describe the fabrication of the largest (233 cm(2) total area) organic photovoltaic (OPV) module (polymer: fullerene) to be certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). OPV solar cells were fabricated at Plextronics by spin coating a blend of poly 3-hexylthiophene-2,5 diyl (P3HT) and [6,6] phenyl C-61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) on top of our hole transport layer (HTL), Plexcore (R) OC. In laboratory-scale devices (0.09 cm(2)), this system routinely exhibits power conversion efficiencies exceeding 3.7%. This P3HT:PCBM active layer and HTL ink system was used to scale up to the larger area module (15.2 cm x 15.2 cm module size, i.e. 233 cm(2) total area; 108 cm(2) active area), which was certified by NREL as having 1.1% total area efficiency (3.4% active area efficiency). (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:5
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