Screen Printed Thin Film CdS/CdTe Solar Cell

Nakayama, Nobuo; Matsumoto, Hitoshi; Nakano, Akihiko; Ikegami, Seiji; Uda, Hiroshi; Yamashita, Toshio

doi:10.1143/jjap.19.703

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“…Electrochemists have also known screen-printing for decades, and the first fully printed electrochemical devices appeared in the early 1980s in the form of solar cells. 3 Later, screen-printed electrodes began to be used more widely by the electroanalytical community after the success of the first commercial glucose biosensors, nearing the 1990s. 4 Today, screen-printed electrodes constitute very familiar and often essential tools in the electroanalytical research laboratory, as discussed in recent reviews.…”

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Rapid prototyping of electrochemical lateral flow devices: stencilled electrodes

Pellitero

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Eibensteiner³

et al. 2016

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A straightforward and very cost effective method is proposed to prototype electrodes using pressure sensitive adhesives (PSA) and a simple cutting technique. Two cutting methods, namely blade cutting and CO2 laser ablation, are compared and their respective merits are discussed. The proposed method consists of turning the protective liner on the adhesive into a stencil to apply screen-printing pastes. After the electrodes have been printed, the liner is removed and the PSA can be used as a backing material for standard lateral flow membranes. We present the fabrication of band electrodes down to 250 μm wide, and their characterization using microscopy techniques and cyclic voltammetry. The prototyping approach presented here facilitates the development of new electrochemical devices even if very limited fabrication resources are available. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of a simple lateral-flow device capable of determining glucose in blood. The prototyping approach presented here is highly suitable for the development of novel electroanalytical tools.

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Rapid prototyping of electrochemical lateral flow devices: stencilled electrodes

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et al. 2016

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“…1). Both of the materials are photoconductive and are used in PV devices as organic/organic combinations, for example, in ITO/PcCu/perylene tetracarboxylic bis-benzimidazole/metal (Al or Ag) [17,18], ITO/PcCu/perylene tetracarboxylic acid/In [19], ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PcCu/C 60 /BCP/Al [20] structures, and in inorganic/inorganic combinations, for example, in CdS/CdTe structures [21]. CdS was also used in hybrid organic-inorganic PV devices in the form of sprayed films [22] or nanocrystals [23].…”

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Photovoltaic cells based on cadmium sulphide–phthalocyanine heterojunction

Смертенко¹,

Kostylev²,

Kislyuk³

et al. 2008

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

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“…Because of its low sublimation temperature CdTe polycrystalline films can be prepared by several techniques. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] The close-space sublimation (CSS) technique is one of the techniques that have produced encouraging results. There have been many reports of CdTe doped with elements, including Sb, Ag, and Cd, Te enrichment etc.…”

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Preparation and Characterization of CdTe for Solar Cells, Detectors, and Related Thin-Film Materials

Shah

Ali

Maqsood

2007

Journal of Elec Materi

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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin films were prepared by the close-space sublimation (CSS) technique, using 99.99% pure CdTe powder as the evaporant. Films were then annealed at 400°C for 30 min and were later dipped in Cu(NO 3 ) 2 -H 2 O solution at 80 ± 2°C. After immersion these films were again annealed at 400°C for 1 h to ensure the Cu diffusion into the films. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results confirmed the formation of a new compound copper telluride and a change in the morphology was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The DC electrical resistivity reduced from 10 6 X-cm for as-deposited to 10 -3 X-cm for 15 h immersed film. As the wt.% of Cu increased, the mobility increased to some extent, while the carrier concentration showed a systematic increase. The film thickness and optical parameter such as refractive index, absorption coefficient, and the optical band gap were deduced by fitting the optical transmittance in the wavelength range 300 to 3000 nm. The transmission decreased with increasing immersion time of films in the solution. The Cu concentration was recorded as 0.9 wt.% for 3 min to 56.6 wt.% for 15 h immersed samples using an electron microprobe analyzer (EMPA). In the next step, ITO/CdS/CdTe heterojunctions with 10.9% solar cell efficiency were fabricated on glass slides.

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Screen Printed Thin Film CdS/CdTe Solar Cell

Cited by 115 publications

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Rapid prototyping of electrochemical lateral flow devices: stencilled electrodes

Rapid prototyping of electrochemical lateral flow devices: stencilled electrodes

Photovoltaic cells based on cadmium sulphide–phthalocyanine heterojunction

Preparation and Characterization of CdTe for Solar Cells, Detectors, and Related Thin-Film Materials

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