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

National and international collaboration
From the nature of this project, most of the partners are international, such as ELCERAM in the
Tchech Republic, SIEMENS & KONARKA in Germany, SOPRA & St-Gobain in France, BAR-ILAN
University in Israel.
A partnership with a large Swiss chemicals company has been tied up for the investigation of new materials
and the feasibility of large scale manufacturing of monolithic modules using all printed active
layers.
A new Eureka program E!4413 LCSC with 3GSolar (Israel) has been launched, investigating the
manufacturing of large area monolithic dye solar cell modules.
Evaluation 2008 and Outlook 2009
In 2008 the processes for the monolithic module manufacturing were identified and analyzed, especially
the carbon paste printing and laser scribing were looked at carefully, as we observed many failures
during to these steps. Thanks to new equipments, the solar module up scaling to 30 x 30 cm in
size was mastered. Difficulties were encountered for the production increase of the screen print nano-
TiO2 paste and the agglomeration problem was only solved by cutting back the batch sizes.
During 2009, the up scaling of the monolithic module production to 30 x 30 cm will be completed with
the arrival of the belt furnace in March 09. The aim is to make test cells / modules to be aged in artificial
sunlight (light soaking) and also in low light conditions. Various demonstration samples (from a
few cm 2 to up to 30 x 30 cm in size) will be produced for marketing and customer trials.
References
www.napolyde.org,
www.myndsphere.com
“Monolithic Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Modules" Toby Meyer , David Martineau, Asef Azam, Mike Scott
and Andreas Meyer, Proceedings of the Nano-Sol-Net International Symposium: Trends in Organic
Electronics and Hybrid Photovoltaics, Eforie Nord, Romania, June 12-14, 2008, edited by M.A. Gîr�u
and M. Fahlman, Ovidius University Press, Constan�a 2008.
NAPOLYDE, T. Meyer, Solaronix
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