Exceeding 5% efficiency on stable and transparent (T=30%) Dye Solar Cell modules (600 cm2) produced at Dyepower pilot line

Daniele Magistri^a, Angelo Lembo^a, Valentina Mirruzzo^a, Guido Viscardi^a, Paolo Mariani^a, Roberto Manfredi^a, Valeria Liparoti^a, Alessandro Lanuti^a, Carlo Bignozzi^a, Thomas M. Brown^a, Luca Bonandini^a, Eva Busatto^a, Daniele Colonna^a, Aldo Di Carlo^a, Alessandro Giglielmotti^a, Andrea Guidobaldi^a, Rita Boaretto^a, Dino Prencipe^a, Claudia Barolo^a, Roberto Tagliaferro^a, Stefano Caramori^a, Luigi Vesce^a, Giuseppe Soscia^a, Alessandra Smarra^a, Riccardo Riccitelli^a, Andrea Reale^a

^aDYEPOWER, Viale Castro Pretorio, 122 - 00185 - Rome, Italy

International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics 2015 (HOPV15)

Roma, Italy, 2015 May 11th - 13th

Organizer: Filippo De Angelis

Poster, Aldo Di Carlo, 273
Publication date: 5th February 2015

Dye Solar Cell technology is considered the best candidate for innovative application scenarios such as BIPV (Building Integrated PhotoVoltaics). In this context, Dyepower has set up a pilot line for the production of both semi-transparent and opaque large area modules and panels. For glass façade applications we developed (20x30) cm² Dye Solar Cell (DSC) modules with luminous transparency of 30%. Devices are manufactured with good reproducibility close to the mean value of the efficiency on active area (5.2 ± 0.1)% (measured at 1 Sun level, class ABB). The maximum value of the measured efficiency is 5.6%. A large effort has been devoted to stabilize the photovoltaic performance with respect to accelerated ageing stresses. Advanced encapsulation technologies were developed to ensure, at the same time, an optimal sealing of the module and color uniformity over the entire large-area device. An improved formulation of electrolyte was identified improving the thermal stability of the module without penalizing the photo-conversion efficiency. A cold lamination process for upscaling was developed to assemble lightweight and transparent DSC strings (30x140) cm² and very large area test panels (120x140) cm²for BIPV applications. We show that such optimizations have enabled us to produce pilot-line modules able to pass UV preconditioning, Humidity-Freeze, Damp-Heat and light-soaking tests included in the IEC 61646 “Thin-film terrestrial photovoltaic (PV) modules - Design qualification and type approval” standard.

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