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A series connection architecture for large-area organic photovoltaic modules with a 7.5% module efficiency.


ABSTRACT: The fabrication of organic photovoltaic modules via printing techniques has been the greatest challenge for their commercial manufacture. Current module architecture, which is based on a monolithic geometry consisting of serially interconnecting stripe-patterned subcells with finite widths, requires highly sophisticated patterning processes that significantly increase the complexity of printing production lines and cause serious reductions in module efficiency due to so-called aperture loss in series connection regions. Herein we demonstrate an innovative module structure that can simultaneously reduce both patterning processes and aperture loss. By using a charge recombination feature that occurs at contacts between electron- and hole-transport layers, we devise a series connection method that facilitates module fabrication without patterning the charge transport layers. With the successive deposition of component layers using slot-die and doctor-blade printing techniques, we achieve a high module efficiency reaching 7.5% with area of 4.15 cm(2).

SUBMITTER: Hong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4728442 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A series connection architecture for large-area organic photovoltaic modules with a 7.5% module efficiency.

Hong Soonil S   Kang Hongkyu H   Kim Geunjin G   Lee Seongyu S   Kim Seok S   Lee Jong-Hoon JH   Lee Jinho J   Yi Minjin M   Kim Junghwan J   Back Hyungcheol H   Kim Jae-Ryoung JR   Lee Kwanghee K  

Nature communications 20160105


The fabrication of organic photovoltaic modules via printing techniques has been the greatest challenge for their commercial manufacture. Current module architecture, which is based on a monolithic geometry consisting of serially interconnecting stripe-patterned subcells with finite widths, requires highly sophisticated patterning processes that significantly increase the complexity of printing production lines and cause serious reductions in module efficiency due to so-called aperture loss in s  ...[more]

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