Develpment of Textile-based Organic Solar Cell

  • 이승우 (경희대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 김영민 (경희대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 전지훈 (경희대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 이영훈 (경희대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • ;
  • 최덕현 (경희대학교 기계공학과)
  • Published : 2014.02.10

Abstract

Organic photovoltaic cells (OPV) have been extensively studied due to their unique properties such as flexibility, light-weight, easy processability, cost-effectiveness, and being environmental friendly. These advantages make them an attractive candidate for application in various novel fields and promising development with new features. Photovoltaic cell-integrated textiles have greatly attractive features as a power source for the smart textile solutions, and OPV is most ideal form factor due to advantage of flexibility. In this study, we develop a textile-based OPV through various experimental methods and we suggest the direction for the design of the photovoltaic textile. We used a textile electrode and tried to various layouts for textile-based OPV. Finally, we determined the contact area by using Hertzian theory for the calculation of power conversion efficiency (PCE). Based on the results of calculation, the short circuit current density, Isc, was $13.11mA/cm^2$ under AM 1.5condition and the PCE was around 2.5%.

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