An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules

Suren Gevorgyan; Andrew James Medford; Eva Bundgaard; Subarna B. Sapkota; Hans-Frieder Schleiermacher; Birger Zimmermann; Uli Würfel; Amine Chafiq; Monica Lira-Cantu; Thomas Swonke; Michael Wagner; Christoph J. Brabec; Olivier Haillant; Eszter Voroshazi; Tom Aernouts; Roland Steim; Jens A. Hauch; Andreas Elschner; Michael Pannone; Min Xiao; Anthony Langzettel; Darin Laird; Matthew T. Lloyd; Thomas Rath; Eugen Maier; Gregor Trimmel; Martin Hermenau; Torben Menke; Karl Leo; Roland Rösch; Marco Seeland; Harald Hoppe; Timothy J. Nagle; Kerry B. Burke; Christopher J. Fell; Doojin Vak; Th.Birendra Singh; Scott E. Watkins; Yulia Galagan; Assaf Manor; Eugene A. Katz; Taehee Kim; Kyungkon Kim; Paul M. Sommeling; Wiljan J.H. Verhees; Sjoerd C. Veenstra; Moritz Riede; M. Greyson Christoforo; Travis Currier; Vishal Shrotriya; Gregor Schwartz; Frederik C Krebs

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.010

An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules

Suren Gevorgyan
, Andrew James Medford
, Eva Bundgaard
, Subarna B. Sapkota
, Hans-Frieder Schleiermacher
, Birger Zimmermann
, Uli Würfel
, Amine Chafiq
, Monica Lira-Cantu
, Thomas Swonke
, Michael Wagner
, Christoph J. Brabec
, Olivier Haillant
, Eszter Voroshazi
, Tom Aernouts
, Roland Steim
, Jens A. Hauch
, Andreas Elschner
, Michael Pannone
, Min Xiao

Anthony Langzettel, Darin Laird, Matthew T. Lloyd, Thomas Rath, Eugen Maier, Gregor Trimmel, Martin Hermenau, Torben Menke, Karl Leo, Roland Rösch, Marco Seeland, Harald Hoppe, Timothy J. Nagle, Kerry B. Burke, Christopher J. Fell, Doojin Vak, Th.Birendra Singh, Scott E. Watkins, Yulia Galagan, Assaf Manor, Eugene A. Katz, Taehee Kim, Kyungkon Kim, Paul M. Sommeling, Wiljan J.H. Verhees, Sjoerd C. Veenstra, Moritz Riede, M. Greyson Christoforo, Travis Currier, Vishal Shrotriya, Gregor Schwartz, Frederik C Krebs

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Laboratory of Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy
Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research
Atlas Material Testing Technology GmbH
Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum
Stichting Katholieke Universiteit
Konarka Technologies GmbH
H.C. Starck Clevios GmbH
Plextronics Inc.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Dresden University of Technology
Ilmenau University of Technology
CSIRO
Holst Centre
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
Stanford University
Solarmer Energy, Inc.
Heliatek GmbH
Graz University of Technology

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Abstract

A large number of flexible polymer solar modules comprising 16 serially connected individual cells was prepared at the experimental workshop at Risø DTU. The photoactive layer was prepared from several varieties of P3HT (Merck, Plextronics, BASF and Risø DTU) and two varieties of ZnO (nanoparticulate, thin film) were employed as electron transport layers. The devices were all tested at Risø DTU and the functional devices were subjected to an inter-laboratory study involving the performance and the stability of modules over time in the dark, under light soaking and outdoor conditions. 24 laboratories from 10 countries and across four different continents were involved in the studies. The reported results allowed for analysis of the variability between different groups in performing lifetime studies as well as performing a comparison of different testing procedures. These studies constitute the first steps toward establishing standard procedures for an OPV lifetime characterization.

Original language	English
Journal	Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells
Volume	95
Issue number	5
Pages (from-to)	1398-1416
ISSN	0927-0248
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.010
Publication status	Published - 2011

Bibliographical note

This work was supported by: the Danish Strategic Research
Council (DSF2104-07-0022), EUDP (j.nr.64009-0050), PV-ERA-
NET (project acronym POLYSTAR), the Spanish Ministry of Science
and Innovation, MICINN for the project ENE2008-04373 and CSIC
for the PIE-200860I134. This work was partially supported by the European
Commission as part of the Framework 7 ICT2009 collaborative
project HIFLEX (Grant Agreement no.248678)

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Polymer solar cells

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Gevorgyan, S., Medford, A. J., Bundgaard, E., Sapkota, S. B., Schleiermacher, H.-F., Zimmermann, B., Würfel, U., Chafiq, A., Lira-Cantu, M., Swonke, T., Wagner, M., Brabec, C. J., Haillant, O., Voroshazi, E., Aernouts, T., Steim, R., Hauch, J. A., Elschner, A., Pannone, M., ... Krebs, F. C. (2011). An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules. Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells, 95(5), 1398-1416. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2011.01.010

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An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules

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