Journal article
Organic photovoltaic modules fabricated by an industrial gravure printing proofer
J Yang, D Vak, N Clark, J Subbiah, WWH Wong, DJ Jones, SE Watkins, G Wilson
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells | Published : 2013
Abstract
Large-area, flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) modules are fabricated successfully by gravure printing in air, using an industrial-scale printing proofer of similar performance to commercial roll-to-roll printing processes. Both the hole transport layer, poly-3,4-ethylenedioxy-thiophene:poly(styrene sulfonic-acid) (PEDOT:PSS), and the active layer, poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]- phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester (P3HT:PCBM), are successively printed on indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene terephthalate (ITO/PET) substrates with evaporated aluminum (Al) top electrodes. The 45 cm2 modules, composed of 5 cells connected in series, show power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 1.0%, in..
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Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are most grateful for the support of Mr. Gary Power and Dr. Phei Lok at Securency International Pty. Ltd., as well as the funding support of the Victorian State Government [Departments of Primary Industry (ETIS and SERD projects) and Business Innovation (VSA)] in the Victorian Organic Solar Cells Consortium (www.vicosc.unimelb.edu.au). J.L. Yang also expresses thanks for the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51203192) and the Lieying Project (7601110208) at Central South University.