SBIR Phase I: Fabrication of Organic Photovoltaic Solar Panel Using Ink Jet Technology

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发塑料有机太阳能电池的低成本/大批量制造方法。喷墨打印将被使用，因为它是一种低污染的添加剂技术，即非接触和数字控制(灵活)。有机光伏电池领域最近有希望的发展不能直接投入生产，因为没有适合以最低成本批量生产的制造技术。该项目将利用喷墨技术独特的微尺度打印能力，通过在塑料衬底上打印来精确沉积活性材料，形成光伏太阳能电池阵列。目前的有机块状异质结材料体系最适合于喷墨打印，并且表现出比它们的前身更好的性能。该项目将使用单壁碳纳米管(SWNT)和聚(3-辛基噻吩基)(P3OT)。这些材料代表了该领域的一些最新研究成果。这项技术的商业潜力将是低成本的塑料薄膜太阳能电池。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop low cost / high volume manufacturing methods for plastic organic solar cells. Ink jet printing will be utilized because it is an additive technology with low pollution, that is non-contact and digitally controlled (flexible). Recent promising developments in the field of organic photovoltaic cells cannot be taken directly to production because there is no manufacturing technology suitable for making them in volume at lowest cost. This project will use the unique microscale printing ability of ink jet technology to precisely deposit the active materials by printing on plastic substrates to form photovoltaic solar cells arrays. The current organic bulk heterojunction material systems are most suited to ink jet printing and show improved performance over their predecessors. This project will use single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT), and poly (3-octylthiophene) (P3OT). These materials represent some of the newest work in the field. The commercial potential of this technology will be low cost, plastic film-based solar cells.