CN103094481B - Cascade polymer solar cell and preparing method thereof - Google Patents

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CN103094481B
CN103094481B CN201310045851.3A CN201310045851A CN103094481B CN 103094481 B CN103094481 B CN 103094481B CN 201310045851 A CN201310045851 A CN 201310045851A CN 103094481 B CN103094481 B CN 103094481B
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The invention discloses a cascade polymer solar cell and a preparing method of the cascade polymer solar cell. The solar cell comprises a substrate, two (or more than two) cell units, interval layers connecting all layers and a packaging layer packaging the polymer solar cell. The two (or more than two) cell units are electrically separated by the transparent interval layers formed by usage of atomic layer deposition (ALT) technology, absorption of solar spectrums of each cell is not influenced, and integral sunlight absorptivity of the cascade cell can also be optimized through adjustment of the thickness of the interval layer. In addition, the design basically separates electrical design from optical design, and design cost is effectively reduced. Meanwhile, ALD film has the advantages of being good in compactness and good in adhesion and the like, can effectively protects the cell units below the film layer from being eroded by water and oxygen in outside air, and plays a role in packaging and prolongs service life of the cell.

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A kind of cascade polymer solar cell and preparation method thereof
Technical field
The invention belongs to area of solar cell, particularly relate to a kind of cascade polymer solar energy panel its preparation method.
Background technology
Energy problem is the hot issue affecting human survival and development always.Along with economic scale expands, energy demand is constantly risen violently, and traditional fossil energy expends huge.Fossil energy is non-renewable resources, and the mankind's excessive use fossil energy will cause serious environmental issue.Therefore, developing pollution-free and reproducible new forms of energy is the extremely urgent tasks of the mankind.Solar energy is a kind of clean, and the new forms of energy of efficient and never exhaustion will be the important new forms of energy that human future development relies on.
The application of solar cell starts from the aerospace industry development in mid-term in last century.Be developed so far, three generations can be divided into, first generation solar cell is with monocrystalline or polysilicon for material, and second generation solar cell is then based on compound (as GaAs), and third generation solar cell comprises DSSC and polymer solar battery.Current first generation silicon materials solar cell still dominate.Modal is on the market crystal silicon solar energy battery, and the efficiency of its industrialization product is generally 13%-15%.Due to complex manufacturing, front two generation manufacture of solar cells cost higher, make its popularization be subject to severely restricts.
Polymer solar battery has attracted to pay close attention to widely due to its potential price advantage in recent years.Compared with silicon solar cell, polymer solar battery manufacture craft is simple, can make on flexible substrates, easy to carry, is one of developing direction of following solar cell.
At present, still there is the problem demanding prompt solution in the practical applications such as photoelectric efficiency on the low side and life-span is short in polymer solar battery.The application of tandem solar cell improves electricity conversion effective way.For polymer tandem solar cell, the film quality of wall requires very high, but traditional wall is generally by water-laid film, and film quality is general, and yields is low.And need two of device cascade devices except also will mutually mate on electrical parameter at absorption spectrum, which greatly enhances design difficulty and manufacturing technique requirent.
Summary of the invention
The problem that the requirement that is large and production technology of design difficulty for polymer solar battery in prior art is high, the invention provides and a kind ofly electrical design to be substantially separated with optical design and the polymer tandem cell structure of long service life.
A kind of cascade polymer solar cell, comprises the substrate set gradually, at least two battery units and encapsulated layer, and with wall between adjacent cell; Described wall is atomic layer deposition thin film.
Wherein, multiple battery unit should have difference and the optical absorption band gap of complementation, absorbs solar energy at vertical light inlet directional combination, thus improves the utilance of spectrum.Cathode thin film layer, anode buffer layer, Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer and transparent anode thin layer that described battery unit is from the close-by examples to those far off set gradually by distance substrate are formed.
Described substrate can adopt fexible film (such as polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) according to the actual requirements, polystyrene (PS), polycarbonate (PC), styrene-acrylonitrile, styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, poly(4-methyl-1-pentene), transparent polyamide etc.) or rigid substrate (such as glass etc.) obtain.
The battery unit of described polymer tandem solar cell is made in substrate at (comprising electrode part and functional layer part), according to the direction of sunlight incidence, multiple battery unit is divided into incident side (non-substrate side is incident side) battery unit and substrate side battery unit.
Wherein two lateral electrodes of incident side battery unit and resilient coating thereof are transparent membrane (or absorbing very little), and transparent material electrode can be the 4-ethylenedioxy thiophene of indium tin oxide (ITO) or high conductivity: polystyrolsulfon acid (PEDOT:PSS).And be metal electrode near the electrode of substrate, such as metallic aluminium or silver etc., this electrode has higher reflection coefficient, incident light can be reflected in a large number thus cause double absorption, increases the efficiency of light energy utilization.
Resilient coating mainly plays adjustment electrodes work functions, improves the effect of charge carrier delivery efficiency, solution spin-coating method can be adopted to make, and functional layer (Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer) adopts solwution method spin coating printing or casting method preparation.
The wall of tandem cell of the present invention is the transparent membrane formed by technique for atomic layer deposition (ALD), and material can be aluminium oxide (Al 2o 3) etc. material transparent in visible-range.
As preferably, described wall is dielectric film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 200nm.Further preferably, described wall is aluminium oxide or hafnia film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 200nm.
The flexible package layer wrapped up outside battery main body, be Simplified flowsheet complexity, described encapsulated layer is atomic layer deposition thin film.
The same wall of material requirements of encapsulated layer, as preferably, described encapsulated layer is dielectric film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 100nm.Further preferably, described encapsulated layer is aluminum oxide film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 100nm.
Present invention also offers the preparation method of described cascade polymer solar cell, comprise the steps:
1) on substrate, battery unit is formed;
2) on battery unit, wall is formed by ald;
3) on wall, form the battery unit of the second layer;
4) step 2 is repeated) ~ 3), make the number of plies that battery unit reaches predetermined;
5) on the battery unit being in top layer, encapsulated layer is formed.
Consider the requirement of the aspect such as thickness, compactness of wall and encapsulated layer, as preferably, the process conditions of described step (2) sublayer, Central Plains deposition are: depositing temperature is 100 DEG C ~ 150 DEG C, and sedimentation time is 40 ~ 80 minutes; Forming encapsulated layer in described step (5) is by technique for atomic layer deposition, and the process conditions of described technique for atomic layer deposition are: depositing temperature is 100 DEG C ~ 150 DEG C, and sedimentation time is 40 ~ 80 minutes.
Compared with prior art, Inventive polymers tandem cell has following advantage:
(1) ALD deposition technique is used to form the transparent spacers film of material (the such as aluminium oxide etc.), electricity is separated two (or multiple) batteries of mutual cascade, but do not affect the absorption of each battery unit to solar spectrum, also can optimize the cell integrated sunlight absorptivity of cascade by the thickness of control interval layer.And electrical design is separated with optical design by this design substantially, effectively reduces design cost.
(2) simultaneously ALD film to have compactness good, the advantages such as tack is good, effectively can protect the battery unit under this thin layer to exempt from the erosion of water oxygen in outside air, serve the effect of encapsulation, improve the useful life of battery.
(3) mild condition of ALD film forming, temperature is lower, can not produce brokenly ring to polymeric material.
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Fig. 1 is the preparation flow figure of cascade polymer solar cell of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the overall structure figure of cascade polymer solar cell of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the concrete structure figure of cascade polymer solar cell of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the abosrption spectrogram by the cascode device after optical optimization.
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Describe the present invention in detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and instantiation, but the present invention is not limited to this.
Figure 2 shows that the overall structure figure of cascade polymer solar cell of the present invention, comprise substrate and two battery units and ALD wall and ALD encapsulated layer.
As shown in Figure 3, example cascade battery of the present invention is thin film laminated structures, from substrate side to incident side, be followed successively by: Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 7, transparent anode layer 8, the flexible atom layer deposit film encapsulated layer 9 of substrate 1, metal cathode film layer and resilient coating 2 thereof, first kind absorption spectrum Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 3, transparent anode layer 4, ald aluminum oxide film wall 5, transparent cathode extremely resilient coating 6, Equations of The Second Kind absorption spectrum.
Next coming in order introduce above-mentioned 9 parts, and Fig. 1 shows the preparation flow of cascade polymer solar cell of the present invention.
Substrate 1, the needs according to using can select flexible substrate or rigid substrate, are the characteristic advantage of the flexible pliable of outstanding polymer solar battery in this example, adopt flexible substrate, use high temperature resistant, stable chemical nature and the smooth PET film of face type, thickness is about 0.8 millimeter.Clean with nonwoven fabrics before use, ensure dustless.
On substrate 1, formed the metallic cathode of about 100nm by the deposit metal films technology that sputtering or hot evaporation etc. are conventional, in this example, use the metallic aluminium (Al) that chemical property is comparatively stable.Then titanium oxide (the TiO of hot evaporation about 2nm x) film is as cathode buffer layer.For regulating cathode work function number, improve charge carrier delivery efficiency.This step forms above-mentioned high-reflectivity metal cathode thin film layer and resilient coating 2 thereof.
On high-reflectivity metal cathode thin film layer and resilient coating 2 thereof, spin coating forms certain thickness first kind absorption spectrum Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 3, poly-[1-methoxyl group-4-(2 '-ethyl-own oxygen base)-2 is used in this example, 5-styrene] (MEH-PPV): 6,6-phenyl-C61-methyl butyrate (PC 61bM), concrete operations: by MEH-PPV and PCBM, 1:4 mixes in mass ratio, is dissolved in chlorobenzene (CB) solution (concentration is 20 mg/ml).Spin speed is 2000rpm, and spin-coating time is 60s, forms the film that thickness is about 80nm.Spin coating to be placed in thermal station 150 DEG C of heating anneals 5 minutes.
On first kind absorption spectrum Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 3, spin coating forms transparent anode layer 4.This layer material is mix the high conductivity 4-ethylenedioxy thiophene obtained: polystyrolsulfon acid (PEDOT:PSS) aqueous solution, and model is PH1000.Spin speed is spin speed is 1000rpm, and spin-coating time is 60s, forms thickness and is about 110nm.Spin coating to be placed in thermal station 80 DEG C of heating 30 minutes, and evaporate to dryness is moisture wherein.
Above step completes the preparation of substrate side battery unit.
Next deposit certain thickness ald aluminum oxide film wall 5 by technique for atomic layer deposition (ALD) transparent anode layer 4, in this example, use aluminum oxide film (Al 2o 3).Technological parameter is as follows: depositing temperature 100 DEG C, and sedimentation time about 60 minutes, makes deposit thickness be about 30nm.
Start to prepare incident side solar battery cell on ald aluminum oxide film wall 5, first on wall, above-mentioned transparency electrode is formed by the method for spin coating, material is similarly PH1000, spin speed is spin speed is 1000rpm, spin-coating time is 60s, forms thickness and is about 110nm.Spin coating to be placed in thermal station 80 DEG C of heating 30 minutes, and evaporate to dryness is moisture wherein.Afterwards by the method for ald (ALD).Zinc oxide (ZnO) film is formed, depositing temperature 80 DEG C, deposit thickness 40nm on this layer.This step forms above-mentioned transparent cathode and to hold concurrently resilient coating 6.
On transparent cathode extremely resilient coating 6, spin coating forms certain thickness Equations of The Second Kind absorption spectrum Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 7, the alternate copolymer (PBDTTT-C) of a kind of benzene 1,4-Dithiapentalene and 1,4-Dithiapentalene is used in this example, concrete operations: by PBDTTT-C and 6,6-phenyl-C71-methyl butyrate (PC 71bM), 1:1.5 mixes in mass ratio, is dissolved in chlorobenzene (CB) solution (concentration is 20 mg/ml).Spin speed is 2000rpm, and spin-coating time is 60s, forms the film that thickness is about 120nm.Spin coating to be placed in thermal station 150 DEG C of heating anneals 5 minutes.
On Equations of The Second Kind absorption spectrum Polymer Optoelectronic conversion layer 7, spin coating shape PH1000 forms transparent anode layer 8, and method is with the preparation of transparent anode layer 4.This layer material is the high conductivity 4-ethylenedioxy thiophene that a kind of doping obtains: polystyrolsulfon acid (PEDOT:PSS) aqueous solution, and model is PH1000.Spin speed is spin speed is 1000rpm, and spin-coating time is 60s, forms the film that thickness is about 110nm.Spin coating to be placed in thermal station 80 DEG C of heating 30 minutes, and evaporate to dryness is moisture wherein.
The last technique for atomic layer deposition (ALD) that passes through on this conductive layer deposits certain thickness ald flexible atom layer deposition of aluminium oxide (Al 2o 3) thin-film encapsulation layer 10.Technological parameter is as follows: depositing temperature 100 DEG C, and sedimentation time is about 60min, makes deposit thickness be about 30nm.
Fig. 4 is the absorption spectrum by the cascode device after optical optimization, and the device absorption spectrum of corresponding wherein two kinds of absorbing materials, can see that the device after cascade combines the absorption spectrum of bi-material on absorption spectrum by contrast, improve the overall utilization rate of device to solar spectrum, improve efficiency.

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1. a cascade polymer solar cell, comprises the substrate set gradually, at least two battery units and encapsulated layer, and with wall between adjacent cell; It is characterized in that, described wall is atomic layer deposition thin film; Described wall is dielectric film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 200nm;
Described encapsulated layer is atomic layer deposition thin film; Encapsulated layer is dielectric film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 100nm;
Described cascade polymer solar cell is prepared by following methods:
Comprise:
1) on substrate, battery unit is formed;
2) on battery unit, wall is formed by ald; The process conditions of described ald are: depositing temperature is 100 DEG C ~ 150 DEG C, and sedimentation time is 40 ~ 80 minutes;
3) on wall, form the battery unit of the second layer;
4) step 2 is repeated) ~ 3), make the number of plies that battery unit reaches predetermined;
5) on the battery unit being in top layer, encapsulated layer is formed;
Described formation encapsulated layer is by technique for atomic layer deposition, and the process conditions of described technique for atomic layer deposition are: depositing temperature is 100 DEG C ~ 150 DEG C, and sedimentation time is 40 ~ 80 minutes.
2. cascade polymer solar cell as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described wall is aluminium oxide or hafnia film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 200nm.
3. cascade polymer solar cell as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described encapsulated layer is aluminum oxide film, and thickness is 30nm ~ 100nm.
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