Citation: Yi-fan Zhao, Wen-jun Zou, Huan Li, Kun Lu, Wei Yan, Zhi-xiang Wei. Large-area, Flexible Polymer Solar Cell Based on Silver Nanowires as Transparent Electrode by Roll-to-Roll Printing[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2017, 35(2): 261-268. doi: 10.1007/s10118-017-1875-z shu

Large-area, Flexible Polymer Solar Cell Based on Silver Nanowires as Transparent Electrode by Roll-to-Roll Printing

Yi-fan Zhao ^a,b ,
Wen-jun Zou ^a ,
Huan Li ^a ,
Kun Lu ^a,, ,
Wei Yan ^b,, ,
Zhi-xiang Wei ^a,,

a.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
b.
Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

Corresponding author: Kun Lu, lvk@nanoctr.cn Wei Yan, yanwei@mail.xjtu.edu.cn Zhi-xiang Wei, weizx@nanoctr.cn
Received Date: 17 September 2016
Revised Date: 14 October 2016
Accepted Date: 15 October 2016

Fund Project: the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21474022the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21125420

Conventional organic solar cell's (OSC) architectures, including rigid transparent substrate (Glass), conductive electrode (Indium tin oxide, ITO) and small working areas, are widely utilized in organic photovoltaic fields. However, such a structure as well as conventional spin-coating method obviously restrict their industrial application. In this article, we report the deposition of silver nanowires (AgNWs) on the flexible substrate by slot-die printing. The obtained AgNWs films exhibited a high transmittance and a low resistance, and were further used as the transparent conductive electrode of OSCs. A typical conjugated polymer, poly[(2, 5-bis (2-hexyldecyloxy) phenylene)-alt-(5, 6-difluoro-4, 7-di (thiophen-2-yl) benzo[c] [1, 2, 5]thiadiazole)] (PPDT2FBT), was used as the active material to fabricate large-area (7 cm²) solar cells by a slot-die coating process. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) could reach 1.87% initially and further increased to 3.04% by thermal annealing. Compared to the performance of reference cell on ITO substrate, the result indicated that the AgNWs could be developed as an alternative substitute of conductive electrode to fabricate the large-area flexible OSCs by roll-to-roll printing.
- Polymer solar cell,
- Silver nanowires,
- Slot-die,
- Large area,
- Flexible substrate
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