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Injection Molding Plastic Solar Cells

Ignasi Burgués‐Ceballos, Paula Pinyol‐Castillo, Aina López‐Porta, Enric Pascual, Tomáš Syrový, Lucie Syrova, Frantisek Josefik, Benjamin Dhuiège, Irene Serrano, Paul D. Lacharmoise, Laura López‐Mir

Advanced Science· Volume 10· Issue 32
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Abstract While organic photovoltaics are accessing specific application sectors taking advantage of their unique properties, it is important to identify as many differentiators as possible to expand the market penetration and consolidation of this technology. In this work, for the first time, the large‐scale fabrication of organic photovoltaic modules embedded into structural plastic parts through industrial injection molding is demonstrated. Thermoplastic polyurethane is chosen as the injected material to show that this additional processing step can yield flexible, lightweight photovoltaic modules with enhanced device robustness and virtually unchanged performance. The critical optomechanical and physico‐chemical material properties, as well as the plastic processing parameters to enable in‐mold plastic solar cells with improved performance and stability, are discussed and provided with perspective.
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Electronic materials

OpenAlex topics: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · Neuroscience and Neural Engineering · Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

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Affiliations

EURECAT Technology Centre of Catalonia Functional Printing and Embedded Devices Unit Parc Científic TecnoCampus Av. Ernest Lluch 36 Mataró 08302 Spain

EURECAT Technology Centre of Catalonia Polymeric and Composites Processes Unit Parc Tecnològic del Vallès Av. Universitat Autònoma, 23 Cerdanyola del Vallès 08290 Spain

Faculty of Chemical Technology Department of Graphic Arts and Photophysics University of Pardubice Doubravice 41 Pardubice 53353 Czech Republic

Centre for Organic Chemistry 296 Rybitví Rybitví 533 54 Czech Republic

GenesInk 39 Avenue Gaston Imbert Zi De Rousset Rousset 13790 France

Aitiip Engineering Department Polígono Industrial Empresarium Calle Romero 12 Zaragoza 50720 Spain

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación · HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

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