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Addressing Bottlenecks in Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Manufacture Using Rapid Near-infrared Heat Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2012

Trystan Watson ,
Cecile Charbonneau ,
Matthew Carnie ,
Ian Mabbett ,
Martyn Cherrington  and
David Worsley
Trystan Watson
Affiliation:
SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Baglan Bay Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK, SA12 7AX.
Cecile Charbonneau
Affiliation:
SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Baglan Bay Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK, SA12 7AX.
Matthew Carnie
Affiliation:
SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Baglan Bay Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK, SA12 7AX.
Ian Mabbett
Affiliation:
SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Baglan Bay Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK, SA12 7AX.
Martyn Cherrington
Affiliation:
SPECIFIC, College of Engineering, Swansea University, Baglan Bay Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Baglan, Port Talbot, UK, SA12 7AX.
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Abstract

A primary challenge to the industrial uptake of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) is the ability to improve manufacturing efficiency. New thinking is required in terms of lowering cost, improving the process steps and increasing throughput. The typical manufacture of a DSC contains a number of long process steps; the sintering and dyeing of the TiO2 are prime examples. The current solution is to batch process on rigid substrates or use long energy intensive convection ovens for flexible metal substrates. Here we present a method for reducing some of the bottlenecks in the manufacturing process using near infra red radiation to speed up the thermal treatment of TiO2 and silver inks reducing their processing times to 12 and 2 seconds from normal process times of 30 and 10 minutes respectively.

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photovoltaicenergy generationenergy generation
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1447: Symposium V – Nanostructured and Advanced Materials for Solar-Cell Manufacturing , 2012 , mrss12-1447-v06-04
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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