Programm Photovoltaik Ausgabe 2009 ... - Bundesamt für Energie BFE

ORGAPVNET
Département fédéral de l’environnement,
des transports, de l’énergie et de la communication DETEC
Office fédéral de l’énergie OFEN
COORDINATION ACTION TOWARDS STABLE
AND LOW-COST ORGANIC SOLAR CELL
TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR APPLICATION
Annual Report 2008
Author and Co-Authors Dr. Toby Meyer
Institution / Company Solaronix SA
Address Ouriette 129 CH-1170 Aubonne
Telephone, E-mail, Homepage +41 (0) 21 821 22 80, toby@solaronix.com, www.solaronix.com
Project- / Contract Number SES6-038889
Duration of the Project (from – to) 01.11.2006 – 30.04.2009
Date 05.02.2008
ABSTRACT
One can observe a strongly increasing R&D-effort in the domain of solar cells based on organic
layers. This progress is essentially based on the introduction of nanostructured material systems to
enhance the photovoltaic performance of these devices. The growing interest is fuelled by the
potentially very low cost of organic solar cells thanks to the low cost of the involved substrates, the
low cost of the active materials of the solar cell, the low energy input for the actual solar cell/module
process and last, but not least, the asset of flexibility. In addition, the ease of up-scalability of the
required application technologies lowers the threshold for new players to enter this field. These efforts
have resulted in the creation of technologies which are approaching the stage of first industrialization
initiatives. These industrial activities target in first instance the market of consumer applications where
energy autonomy can be ensured by integrating these flexible solar cells on a large variety of
surfaces. In order to have a real impact on the PV-market, additional progress is needed on the
level of efficiency, stability and application technologies to allow also the application of these solar
cell technologies for power generation on a larger scale. The OrgaPvNet coordination action
consortium wants to foster necessary progress on these issues by integrating a number of leading
institutions in this field in association with the main industrial players entering this field. We believe
that a Coordination Action is an appropriate vehicle by which the isolated competences that exist
around Europe in this field can be integrated, structured and organised. In this way a powerful
Organic Photovoltaic Platform will be created that can sustain the leading R&D-position of Europe
within this domain and in the end strengthen European competitiveness in a sector which is of high
strategic relevance in ensuring a sustainable energy supply. Key actions to reach the abovementioned
objectives are: i) to promote interaction between scientists, ii) to take advantage of the
previous experience of research groups, iii) to join forces to maximize the synergy between individual
skills, thus obtaining the best achievable global results, and iv) to provide an appropriate communication
channel between academic groups, SMEs and industrials. OrgaPvNet will contribute to this by: a)
the exchange of information during the workshops organized by the network, (b) scientific exchange
between partners by research visits of scientist and student grants, (c) Set-up of a web-based database
containing news, resources, project results, reports, links, seminars, training, courses, job opportunities,
grants, (d) Elaboration of a “Who is Who” Guide in organic photovoltaic field, (e) Elaboration
of the European Organic Photovoltaic Roadmap: identification of scientific priority areas and formulation
of research and development strategies.
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