Objectives

The objective of MOLESOL is to demonstrate new revolutionary pathways for fabrication of low cost, high efficiency and stable solar cells. Our goals are:

  1.  To develop cost-effective chemical and screen-printing solutions for carbon based graphene as a viable replacement of the ITO electrode. Target of this development at mid-term of the project is the demonstration of a resistivity of 200 Ω/sq and transparency of 80%.
  2. To develop diamond p –type as an anode for usage where a hole can be efficiently injected from a dye to diamond (p-type collector). The B-NCD electrode can have important used in other organic or inorganic solar cells applications. Target of this development at mid-term of the project is the demonstration of a resistivity of 100 Ω/sq and transparency of 70%.
  3. To demonstrate ambitious concept of molecular-wire coupled dye solar cells (MWCD) - by assembling p-type collector, a dye and the top n-type collector layers - with conversion efficiency > 7.5% at mid-term of the project and propose pathways for scalability above 11%. This will match the conversion efficiency of the best current DSSCs.
  4. To demonstrate significant improvement of the stability operation, as evaluated and by benchmarking with the current state of-the-art OPV and DSSC technologies.