Thin Film Solar Cells. New Organic Materials, Large-scale Printing and Nanoparticles

Watkins, Scott

Title:

Thin Film Solar Cells. New Organic Materials, Large-scale Printing and Nanoparticles

dc.contributor.author	Watkins, Scott	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	CSIRO (Australia)	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Australia-US Institute for Advanced Photovoltaics	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-08-30T20:20:44Z
dc.date.available	2013-08-30T20:20:44Z
dc.date.issued	2013-08-21
dc.description	Scott Watkins is the Stream Leader for Thin Film Photovoltaics in CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship and is based in the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria. Scott has a PhD in Chemistry from UNSW and has developed research interests which span the synthesis and analysis of new materials through to the fabrication and testing of devices. Between 2000 and 2004 Scott worked with Cambridge Display Technologies in the UK on the development of light-emitting polymers and metal complexes for display and lighting applications. Scott joined CSIRO in 2004 to work on materials and applications in the field of flexible electronics. At CSIRO Scott has led projects on both OLEDs and OPVs and coordinates CSIRO’s involvement in a number of national and international consortia aimed at developing applications of flexible electronics by linking industry with research. Scott is representing CSIRO in the newly formed Australia-US Institute for Advanced Photovoltaics (AUSIAPV), of which Georgia Institute of Technology is a partner.	en_US
dc.description	Presented on Wednesday August 21, 2013 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm in the Molecular Science and Engineering Building room 3201A.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 58:41 minutes.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	In this seminar I will present three main areas of our work on solution processed solar cells. In part one I will describe the development of new donor and acceptor materials for solution processed organic photovoltaics (OPVs). In particular, I will discuss the issue of molecular association with regards to small molecule donor materials and its effect on the open circuit voltage. I will also introduce a new class of small molecule semiconductors based on solubilised indene derivatives and their use as acceptor materials in solution processed bulk heterojunction OPVs. In part two, I will describe our work on large scale printing of organic solar cells. Finally, in part three, I will present our work on the fabrication of thin film solar cells based on nanocrystal inks of CdTe. We have shown that totally solution processable solar cells can be fabricated in air at temperatures as low as 300 °C. Focusing on a CdTe/ZnO thin-film system, we report solar cells that achieve power conversion efficiencies of upto 10% with greater than 90% internal quantum efficiency.	en_US
dc.format.extent	58:41 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48748
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	COPE Seminar Series	en_US
dc.subject	Solar cells	en_US
dc.subject	Printing	en_US
dc.subject	CSIRO	en_US
dc.subject	Australia	en_US
dc.title	Thin Film Solar Cells. New Organic Materials, Large-scale Printing and Nanoparticles	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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