Encapsulation techniques for glass plates for hybrid organic solar cell applications

Kurzfassung

An Italian university research team is seeking a technology concerning the encapsulation materials/techniques for sealing rigid glass substrates together for dye sensitized and organic solar cell applications. The team is looking for partners interested in technical collaboration to develop the requested technologies.

Details

The team carries out research and development on dye sensitised and organic solar cells. They are especially interested in encapsulation materials and techniques for sealing glass substrates together. The technology requested ideally would be compatible with solution processed fabrication or other low cost techniques.

Technical Specifications / Specific technical requirements:
The team needs to seal two glass substrates together maintaining a spacing of around 25 micron - 60 micron between them with a material that encapsulates and protects the inner space extremely well from the outer atmosphere (oxygen and water vapour in particular). The inner space will be filled with an electrolyte based on solvents like methoxyproprionitrile and the redox couple I-/I3- so the encapsulant needs to be highly resistant to it as we need to prevent any leakage of the electrolyte to the outside. Ideally curing temperatures should be lower than about 100C but we could live with more if the encapsulant is particularly promising.