Properties of the OPV cell:
The most unique aspect of the OPV Zellenvermächtnisses is the transparent conductive electrode. This allows the light to the active materials inside react and cause the electricity. Now graphene / plastic sheets are used to strong series of flexible OPV to cause cells and they are used to solar radiation into electricity to convert the low-cost solar energy provides.
New OPV Design:
Now a research team under the guidance of Chongwu Zhou, professor of electrical engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering raised the theory that a graph – then in his form as an atom-thick carbon sheets and to the very flexible plastic sheets with a thermoplastic layer protection attached is connected to the OPV cells. By chemical vapor deposition of graphene can quality in sufficient quantities are now also produced.
Differences between cells and silicon graphene OPV cells:
The traditional silicon solar cells are more efficient as 14 watts are generated energy of 1000 watt light, can be generated in the as only 1.3 watts of power from a graphene OPV cell. But more than offset these OPV cells because they have more advantages such as physical flexibility and costing less.
Economical in the long term:
According to Gomez De Arco, a team member, it can be a day possible, to conduct printing presses with these economically priced OPVs, which covers a lot of very extensive areas such as print newspapers. In the Gomez words – “they could be hung in the houses or can be formed even in tissues, and worn as energy, as the curtains produced clothes …. just imagine people, their mobile phone or music / video device to drive while jogging in the Sun “advantages of OPVs. The flexibility of op amps are these cells added benefit by following the repeated bending different operationally than the indium-tin-oxide cells is.
Low cost, conductivity, stability, electrode / organic film compatibility and ease of use with flexibility graphene give OPV cell a decidedly added advantage over other solar cells. The Team: The USC team, consisting of Chongwu Zhou, Cody W. Schlenker, Koungmin Rye, Mark E. Thompson, Yi Zhang and Gómez De Arco published a paper on their research in the ACS journal Nano and is about the future potential benefits and use very much excited, that are possible with the OPV grapehne cells.
