Flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells applied in the educational platform Arduino

Andre F. S. Guedes; Egon Z. Cardoso; Fabiane E. da Silva; Simone Tartari

doi:10.1117/12.2528224

3 September 2019 Flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells applied in the educational platform Arduino

Andre F. S. Guedes, Egon Z. Cardoso, Fabiane E. da Silva, Simone Tartari

Proceedings Volume 11089, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, Thin Films, and Devices XVI; 110891P (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528224
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The development of flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells, using an optically transparent substrate material and organic semiconductor materials, has been widely utilized by the electronic industry when producing new technological products. The flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells are the base Poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, Poly(3- hexyl thiophene, P3HT, Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester, PCBM and Polyaniline, PANI, were deposited in Indium Tin Oxide, ITO, and characterized by Electrical Measurements and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). In addition, the thin film obtained by the deposition of PANI, prepared in perchloric acid solution, was identified through PANI-X1. The result obtained by electrical Measurements has demonstrated that the PET/ITO/PEDOT/P3HT:PCBM Blend/PANIX1 layer presents the characteristic curve of standard solar cell after spin-coating and electrodeposition. The Thin film obtained by electrodeposition of PANI-X1 on P3HT/PCBM Blend was prepared in perchloric acid solution. These flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells presented power conversion efficiency of 12%. The inclusion of the PANI-X1 layer reduced the effects of degradation these organic photovoltaic panels induced for solar irradiation. In Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) these studies reveal that the surface of PANI-X1 layers is strongly conditioned by the surface morphology of the dielectric. The flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells developed in this work were applied in the educational platform Arduino, where tests demonstrated their efficient capacity to keep the platform in operation during exposure of the organic solar cells to the illumination with 100 mW/cm2.

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Andre F. S. Guedes, Egon Z. Cardoso, Fabiane E. da Silva, and Simone Tartari "Flexible organic photovoltaic solar cells applied in the educational platform Arduino", Proc. SPIE 11089, Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, Thin Films, and Devices XVI, 110891P (3 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528224

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Organic photovoltaics

Solar cells

Scanning electron microscopy

Organic semiconductors

Polymers

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