SBIR Phase I: Nanostructured Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Solar Cell

SBIR 第一阶段：纳米结构有机-无机混合太阳能电池

• 批准号: 0340213
• 负责人: Brian Sager
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Nanosolar, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0340213&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Nanostructured; Hybrid; Organic

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project proposes to focus on the development and optoelectronic optimization of a prototype for a new, leapfrog class of web-coatable solar cells which are flexible with a light weight form factor, have substantially lower absolute cost per area, and a breakthrough cost-performance. The objective of the project is the creation and optimization of a benchtop prototype device with an efficiency, which will represent the highest solar cell efficiency ever achieved in an organic cell. The project's plastic solar cells are based upon a 200 nm thick, nanoscale charge-splitting network which serves as an active layer, self-organized from solution into highly regular coatings that can be tailored to absorb most of the visible light spectrum. These solar cells can be coated onto large-area panels without the use of lithography, vacuum deposition, or high-temperature processes. Commercially, relative to best practice solar cells, based on thin film, inorganic copper indium gallium selenide technology, this new approach has the potential to enable solar cells with a cost per watt that is 2.5x superior to the industry's anticipated CIGS-based cell performance in 2008, an unprecedented level with the potential of making solar electricity economically feasible for a broad market. In addition, with key differentiating attributes including light weight, a flexible form, and a low cost per area, the technology opens up new markets and application segments.

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目建议专注于开发和光电优化一个新的，跨越式的网络可涂覆太阳能电池的原型，这是灵活的，重量轻的形状因子，具有显著降低的单位面积绝对成本，并具有突破性的成本性能。 该项目的目标是创建和优化具有效率的台式原型设备，这将代表有机电池中有史以来最高的太阳能电池效率。 该项目的塑料太阳能电池基于200 nm厚的纳米级电荷分裂网络，该网络作为活性层，从溶液自组织成高度规则的涂层，可以定制以吸收大部分可见光谱。这些太阳能电池可以被涂覆到大面积的面板上，而不需要使用光刻、真空沉积或高温工艺。 在商业上，相对于基于薄膜、无机铜铟镓硒技术的最佳实践太阳能电池，这种新方法具有使太阳能电池的每瓦成本优于2008年行业预期的基于CIGS的电池性能的2.5倍上级的潜力，这是前所未有的水平，具有使太阳能发电在广泛市场上经济可行的潜力。此外，凭借重量轻、形式灵活和单位面积成本低等关键差异化属性，该技术开辟了新的市场和应用领域。