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Current Collecting Grids for R2R Processed Organic Solar Cells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2011

Robert Abbel ,
Jaquelien van den Boomen ,
Tim van Lammeren ,
Tom de Koning ,
Josué J. P. Valeton  and
Erwin R. Meinders
Robert Abbel
Affiliation:
Holst Centre – TNO, High Tech Campus 31, P.O. Box 8550, 5605 KN Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Jaquelien van den Boomen
Affiliation:
Holst Centre – TNO, High Tech Campus 31, P.O. Box 8550, 5605 KN Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Tim van Lammeren
Affiliation:
Holst Centre – TNO, High Tech Campus 31, P.O. Box 8550, 5605 KN Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Tom de Koning
Affiliation:
Fontys University of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 347, 5600 AH Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Josué J. P. Valeton
Affiliation:
NeoDec BV, Raiffeisenstraat 9, 5611 CH Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Erwin R. Meinders
Affiliation:
Holst Centre – TNO, High Tech Campus 31, P.O. Box 8550, 5605 KN Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

Exposure to highly focussed flash light (photonic flash sintering) has been developed as a technology to successfully cure printed metal inks on temperature sensitive plastic substrates. In contrast to the traditional approach of thermal oven sintering, conductivities up to 30 % of the value of bulk silver can be achieved within a few seconds without foil deformation. The compatibility of this technology with R2R production has been demonstrated with line speeds up to 5 m/min. As a consequence, our approach is expected to enable the high throughput fabrication of current collecting grids for organic solar cells in order to replace transparent electrodes based on metal oxides such as ITO. Additionally, our new sintering technology has enabled us to process a new generation of conductive inks, based on copper complexes, which cannot be processed by oven sintering.

Keywords

transparent conductormetallic conductorsintering
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1323: Symposium C – Advanced Materials Processing for Scalable Solar-Cell Manufacturing , 2011 , mrss11-1323-c03-38
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2011

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