Flexible and Low Cost Photovoltaics

Printed 3rd Generation Solar Cells
Research Objectives:

• Develop and understand materials and process requirements for low-cost high throughput fabrication including printing approaches.

Hybrid Approaches: polymer and thin-film silicon hybrid solar cells
Research Objectives:

• Tailor the energy levels of organics to allow better charge transport and band alignment with Si.
• Better heterojunction across the organic-inorganic interface, leading to an enhanced Voc.

Novel Electrodes and Reliable Encapsulation
Research Objectives:

• Develop low workfunction transparent electrodes.
• Develop materials and device requirements for effective moisture and oxygen barrier encapsulation.