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

Pälvi Kopola; T. Aernouts; S. Guillerez; H. Jin; Markus Tuomikoski; Arto Maaninen; Jukka Hast

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2010.05.027

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

Pälvi Kopola (Corresponding Author), T. Aernouts, S. Guillerez, H. Jin, Markus Tuomikoski, Arto Maaninen, Jukka Hast

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1673-1680
Number of pages	8
Journal	Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Volume	94
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2010.05.027
Publication status	Published - 2010
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Gravure printing
Organic photovoltaics
Polymer solar cell
Solution processing

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

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