Flexible glass substrate based dye sensitized solar cells

Sheehan, S.; Surolia, Praveen K.; Byrne, Owen; Garner, Sean; Cimo, Pat; Li, X.; Dowling, Denis P.; Thampi, K. Ravindranathan

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2014.09.001

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“…The FDSSCs normally employ transparent conductive plastic film (denoted as TPCO, indium tin oxide/polyethylene naphthalate-ITO/PEN, the fluorine doped tin oxide/polyethylene terephthalate-FTO/PET), or flexible metal material (such as titanium foil, titanium wires, titanium or stainless steel wire mesh etc.) as substrates [36,37]. The photoanode with TPCO substrate is unable to be annealed at high temperature (>450℃) for removing organic residuals in nanostructured film and forming chemical bonding between conductive layer and semiconductor film [30], which leads to low charge transport and charge collection.…”

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Engineering flexible dye-sensitized solar cells for portable electronics

Lei

et al. 2019

Solar Energy

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With growing demand for economic, eco-friendly, easy-manufacturing and renewable portable power source, flexible dye-sensitized solar cells (FDSSCs) exhibit a promising potential in the field of portable power sources. However, FDSSCs surfer from low conversion efficiency and poor stability, which hinder their applications. In this work, we have summarized recent development and challenges according to respective functions of their vital components (substrate, semiconductor film, sensitizer, electrolytes and counter electrode) as well as their effects on photoelectric conversion efficiency. Meanwhile, typical fabrication approaches have been analyzed for increasing the incident photon to current efficiency (IPCE). The approaches in rigid dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) for improving performance are also introduced to provide the favorable direction for accelerating FDSSCs' application in field of potable power source.

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Section: Inheritance and Distinctionmentioning

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Engineering flexible dye-sensitized solar cells for portable electronics

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Solar Energy

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“…[34][35][36] Generally, typical materials for flexible substrates are polymer-based solid materials such as polyethylene terephthalate, 34 polyethylene naphthalate, 35 and PI. 36 Exceptionally, thin glass (thickness =~100 μm) has been used for flexible substrates, 37 however such thin glass (to the best of our knowledge) is still brittle under some forms of mechanical deformation. To date, primarily polymer substrates have been evaluated as appropriate materials for flexible substrates.…”

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Research on flexible display at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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Displays represent information visually, so they have become the fundamental building block to visualize the data of current electronics including smartphones. Recently, electronics have been advanced toward flexible and wearable electronics that can be bent, folded, or stretched while maintaining their performance under various deformations. Here, recent advances in research to demonstrate flexible and wearable displays are reviewed. We introduce these results by dividing them into several categories according to the components of the display: active-matrix backplane, touch screen panel, light sources, integrated circuit for fingerprint touch screen panel, and characterization tests; and we also present mechanical tests in nano-meter scale and visual ergonomics research.

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“…Small‐scale systems as illustrated in Figure 3 are typically made for web widths of up to 150 mm. The typical substrates are flexible foils rather than glass although ultra‐thin flexible glass is under development and in and in an early commercialization phase 107–109. Process dependent run‐in length (e.g., due to meniscus stabilization in slot–die coating) can be handled more easily because the overall coating length only relies on the roll length or circumference of the drum.…”

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Development of Lab‐to‐Fab Production Equipment Across Several Length Scales for Printed Energy Technologies, Including Solar Cells

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We describe and review how the scaling of printed energy technologies not only requires scaling of the input materials but also the machinery used in the processes. The general consensus that ultrafast processing of technologies with large energy capacity can only be realized using roll‐to‐roll methods is taken as a premise, and thus the progression from a highly successful laboratory technique (i.e., spin coating) to large‐scale roll‐to‐roll equipment is described in terms of all of the intermediate steps that must be available to make the transfer possible. Spin coating is compatible with materials availability on the small scale and efficient scaling of equipment is a demanding task that must be performed in parallel with increasing materials availability. We outline that 3–5 processing platforms are necessary to efficiently take the laboratory technology to a version that represents the lower end of the industrial scale. The machinery bridges the gap through firstly achieving improved ink efficiency without surface contact, followed by better ink efficiency at higher speeds, and finally large‐area processing at high speed with very high ink efficiency.

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Flexible glass substrate based dye sensitized solar cells

Cited by 52 publications

References 61 publications

Engineering flexible dye-sensitized solar cells for portable electronics

Engineering flexible dye-sensitized solar cells for portable electronics

Research on flexible display at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Development of Lab‐to‐Fab Production Equipment Across Several Length Scales for Printed Energy Technologies, Including Solar Cells

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