EP3405342A1 - Organic photovoltaic assembly and process of manufacture - Google Patents
Organic photovoltaic assembly and process of manufactureInfo
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- EP3405342A1 EP3405342A1 EP17700695.4A EP17700695A EP3405342A1 EP 3405342 A1 EP3405342 A1 EP 3405342A1 EP 17700695 A EP17700695 A EP 17700695A EP 3405342 A1 EP3405342 A1 EP 3405342A1
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- Prior art keywords
- organic
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
- B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
- B32B17/00—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres
- B32B17/06—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material
- B32B17/10—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin
- B32B17/10005—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin laminated safety glass or glazing
- B32B17/10009—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin laminated safety glass or glazing characterized by the number, the constitution or treatment of glass sheets
- B32B17/10036—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin laminated safety glass or glazing characterized by the number, the constitution or treatment of glass sheets comprising two outer glass sheets
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
- B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
- B32B17/00—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres
- B32B17/06—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material
- B32B17/10—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin
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- B32B17/1055—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin laminated safety glass or glazing characterized by the resin layer, i.e. interlayer
- B32B17/10788—Layered products essentially comprising sheet glass, or glass, slag, or like fibres comprising glass as the main or only constituent of a layer, next to another layer of a specific material of synthetic resin laminated safety glass or glazing characterized by the resin layer, i.e. interlayer containing ethylene vinylacetate
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10K—ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES
- H10K30/00—Organic devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation
- H10K30/80—Constructional details
- H10K30/88—Passivation; Containers; Encapsulations
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
- B32B—LAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
- B32B2457/00—Electrical equipment
- B32B2457/12—Photovoltaic modules
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02E—REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION
- Y02E10/00—Energy generation through renewable energy sources
- Y02E10/50—Photovoltaic [PV] energy
- Y02E10/549—Organic PV cells
Definitions
- the field of the present invention relates to buildings or land vehicles for housing people or transporting people, or any other element such as street furniture, noise barriers, greenhouses, balustrades, louvers or double skin glasses, which comprise glazing panels with an organic photovoltaic device comprising an interlay er made of an Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymer (EVA) and to the process for obtaining the assembly.
- EVA Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymer
- PV Photovoltaic
- organic photovoltaic modules and cells have been published.
- organic photovoltaic devices comprise at least two electrodes, and at least one photoactive layer and optionally various other doped and/or un-doped layers between the electrodes.
- the other layers have different functions, for instance carrier transport, blocking or passivation layers.
- the photoactive layers of some published photoactive components comprise layers with small molecules. These photoactive layers are often formed as mixed layers for getting highly efficient devices.
- small molecules are understood to be non-polymeric organic molecules having monodisperse molar masses of between 100 and 2000.
- these small molecules can also be photoactive, wherein photoactive is understood to mean that the molecules change their charge state under light incidence (WO 2004 083 958 A2, WO 2006 092 134 Al, WO 2011161 108 Al) where the quantum efficiency of the charge transfer process is enhanced by electric fields and appropriate heterojunctions between donor-type and acceptor-type molecules.
- WO 2009 151 952 A2 discloses a thin film PV module comprising a base substrate, a thin film PV device in contact with the base substrate, a poly(vinyl butyral) layer (PVB) disposed in contact with the PV device and a protective substrate.
- Beside PV, WO 2014 083 110 Al discloses a similar stack of an organic LED assembly, comprising two glasses, an interlayer, which can be made of EVA, and an organic light emitting diode.
- EVA - in contrast to other polymers - is not a good barrier for water.
- the Applicant submits his invention, which is an assembly comprising a first glass layer, a film comprising an organic photovoltaic (PV) component, and at least one layer of copolymer Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) and a substrate.
- PV organic photovoltaic
- EVA copolymer Ethylene Vinyl Acetate
- the Applicant has measured that EVA, despite being reactive during the lamination process to obtain the assembly, has not damaged the organic photovoltaic (PV) component or organic photovoltaic stack.
- the rationale approach was to select polymers for their capacity to block water diffusion, then to select the organic PV stacks for their performances.
- the film comprising the organic photovoltaic component is placed between two layers of EVA thermoplastic interlayer.
- the film comprising the organic photovoltaic component comprises photoactive layers with small molecules.
- the organic photovoltaic component is a flexible film.
- the second substrate is a glass.
- Figures 1 and 2 are a cross-sectional view of the assembly of the present invention.
- the Applicant has successfully developed an assembly 1 comprising a functional film including an organic photovoltaic (PV) component 4, based on polymers or organic small molecules as an alternative to inorganic PV cells made of silicon wafers, amorphous or microcrystalline silicon thin films or any other inorganic PV technology.
- the Applicant suggests an assembly 1 comprising a first glass module 2, a functional film of an photovoltaic component 4 preferred with organic molecules , at least one interlay er of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymer 3, 5, or 7 and a substrate 6.
- the first problem has been to select an interlayer 3 and/or 5 that will not react with the photovoltaic (PV) organic component 4 resulting in reduced functionalities.
- the environment causes heating of the assembly, heat variation, light radiation and water diffusion inside the assembly. All these conditions markedly affect the organic photovoltaic component, especially with small molecules, and there is the need to select interlayers 3 and/or 5 for the capacity to protect the organic PV component 4, especially against water diffusion.
- the organic PV component 4 may be a single, tandem, triple or multiple organic PC component.
- the Applicant has thus firstly selected materials to be constitutive of the interlayers 3 and/or 5 made of PVB, PU and ionomer as they were shown to allow lower water vapour transmission rates.
- the material to test is directly placed on the stack comprising organic PV component and placed on a heating plate. After a given time period at a given temperature, there is the observation for any colour change of the organic stack comprising the organic PV molecule. An absence of color change means the tested material is not reacting with the organic stack comprising the organic PV molecule. On the contrary, if the colour changes, both products (organic PV and polymer interlay er) are reacting and the material must be rejected as interlay er and/or encapsulation film.
- the materials to be constitutive of the interlayers 3 and/or 5 were previously processed and then removed from the laminated glass. Indeed, this has permitted to have the same chemistry as the final product since the inventors have noticed that ionomers are reacting during the lamination process, which modifies the properties of these materials.
- the Applicant has thus tested stacks with different types of PVB and ionomers, as well as polyurethanes (PU) in the interlay er.
- the Applicant has firstly used mild conditions in an attempt to identify all the molecules that would be suitable.
- the test temperature has been fixed at 80°C and the duration at 5 minutes. The results are shown at Table 1.
- Table 1 heating of a stack comprising a film with organic photovoltaic component 4 with polymer interlayers 3 at 80°C for 5 min.
- Table 2 heating of stack comprising a film with organic photovoltaic component 4 with polymer interlayer 3 at 120°C for 5 min.
- test temperature has been firstly fixed at 80°C and the duration at 5 minutes, and the results are shown at Table 3.
- Table 3 heating of stack comprising a film with organic photovoltaic component 4 with EVA interlayer 3 at 80°C for 5 min.
- Table 4 heating of stack comprising a film with organic photovoltaic component 4 with EVA interlayer 3 at 120°C for 5 min.
- Example 2 Incorporation of the organic PV and of the EVA interlayer in a PV assembly according to the invention
- the assembly 1 comprises a first glass module 2, a functional film of an photovoltaic component 4 with organic small molecules , at least one interlayer of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymer 3, 5, or 7 and a substrate 6.
- the first substrate 2 is a transparent glass with less than 0.02 wt% of iron in the form of Fe203.
- a layer comprising the organic PV component 4 is then added and the electric connections are put.
- a compensation layer of interlayer 7 can be added on the surroundings of the layer with the PV component to obtain a better aesthetical result, for instance without bubbles, as shown in figure 2.
- One or more films of EVA 5 are added on this stack.
- the layer comprising the organic PV component is surrounded by a further frame of a film of EVA thermoplastic interlayer.
- the one or more films of EVA may have a thickness between 0.2 to 1.5 mm and preferably between 0.2 to 1.2 mm.
- thermoplastic interlayer film allow to decrease the temperature used during the lamination process and allows to prevent the degradation of the film comprising the organic PV component. In parallel there is no need of high pressure (autoclave) thanks to utilization of this kind of interlayer.
- EVA ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer
- a second substrate (herein glass) 6 is placed.
- the second substrate glass may be a lacquered glass for an aesthetic aspect.
- the substrate may be any rigid structure, including plastic or glass.
- the substrate is a glass substrate.
- the glass substrate used may be flat glass, in particular float glass of various thicknesses; it may be soda lime glass and may be clear, extra-clear, coloured, etched, sand-blasted, patterned or coated glass, or particular compositions for display applications.
- the glass may be bent. Glass sheets according to the invention may have a size greater than lm x lm. They may have various sizes depending on the desired application.
- a preferred front glass is a low-absorbing (low iron) glass.
- the glass substrate is a heat treated glass sheet, for example annealed or tempered and/or bended glass sheet.
- this involves heating the glass sheet (coated or not) in a furnace to a temperature of at least 580°C, more preferably of at least about 600°C and still more preferably of at least 620°C before rapidly cooling down the glass substrate.
- This tempering and/or bending can take place for a period of at least 4 minutes, at least 5 minutes, or more in different situations.
- the glass may be coated with an anti-reflective coating, an anti- scratch coating.
- This assembly 1 is tightly fixed and placed in a device able to apply low pressures and high temperatures, submitted to a degassing step under reduced pressures (typically below 0.35-0.15 bar) for at least 30 minutes, and then to temperatures of at least 95°C for at least 45 min.
- the vacuum has been removed at the same high temperatures for more than 3 hours, then the temperature is reduced and the assembly is removed from the device.
- EVA liquid
- Example 3 Incorporation of the organic PV component and of the EVA monomers in a PV assembly
- the assembly 1 comprises a first glass module 2, a functional film of an photovoltaic component 4 with organic small molecules , at least one interlayer of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate copolymer 3, 5, or 7 and a substrate 6.
- a first film 3 of non-polymerized EVA is applied on a first substrate 2, preferably a transparent glass with less than 0.02 wt% of iron in the form of Fe203.
- a layer comprising the organic photovoltaic component 4 is then added and the electric connections are put.
- the organic PV component is flexible and/or comprises small organic molecules in the photoactive layers.
- a compensation layer of interlayer 7 can be added to obtain a better aesthetical result.
- a second film of non-polymerized EVA 5 is added on this stack.
- a second substrate (herein glass) 6 is placed.
- This assembly 1 is tightly fixed and placed in a device able to apply low pressures and high temperature.
- the cycle starts with a degassing step under reduced pressures, typically below 0.35 to 0.15 bar.
- the temperature is then increased to around 90°C in order to reach the maximum fluidity of the EVA to fill all the cavities in the assembly.
- the temperature is increased up to 120°C to polymerize the EVA. This temperature is a good compromise between the polymerization reaction and the organic stability, which cannot sustain a temperature higher than 120°C.
- the obtained assembly displays good PV properties.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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EP16151996.2A EP3196012A1 (en) | 2016-01-20 | 2016-01-20 | Organic photovoltaic assembly and process of manufacture |
PCT/EP2017/051132 WO2017125522A1 (en) | 2016-01-20 | 2017-01-20 | Organic photovoltaic assembly and process of manufacture |
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