Atomic Energy Council-institute of Nuclear Energy Research

Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan

Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan, R.o.c

Institute of Nuclear Energy Research

Charn-Ying Chen

Yeong-Der Lin

Cheng-Si Tsao

Yu-Ching Huang

Chih-Min Chuang

Hou-Chin Cha

De-Han Lu

Cheng-Wei Chou

Chih-Yuan Hsu

Chi-Yuan Chang

Kin-Fu Lin

Peng Yang

Chih-Lin Huang

Zheng-Lin Yu

Chia-Te Yen

Ying-Sheng Lee

Fan-Hsuan Hsu

Ching-Shih Liu

Kang-Lin Hwang

Chun-Lung Chang

Der-Hsing Liou

Rui-Xiang Wang

Wei-Wei Lin

Yun-Bor Lin

Kang-Nang Perng

Chia-Hsin Lee

The present invention relates to a serial module of organic solar cells and the method for manufacturing the same. The structure comprises a transparent conductive layer composed by a plurality of conductive blocks, an active layer having notches on the periphery, and a metal layer composed by a plurality of metal blocks. The active layer according to the present invention is a complete layer except the notches on the periphery for exposing a portion of the transparent conductive layer. The metal blocks can contact the conductive blocks of adjacent organic solar cell via the exposure areas and thus connecting the organic solar cells in series. The present invention can improves the power generating efficiency of organic solar cells in a limited space, which is beneficial to the development of promotion of future organic solar cells.

Serial module of organic solar cell and method for manufacturing the same

The present invention discloses a method for improving mass-production yield of large-area organic solar cells for forming the active layer using the roll-to-roll process. The active layer includes low-bandgap high-polymer PTB7, Fullerenes derivative PCBM, and high-boiling-point additives. The addition of the high-boiling-point additives can enhance the efficiency of organic solar cells effectively. In the roll-to-roll process according to the present invention, the drying temperature for the wet film is controlled for controlling the content of additives in the dry film. Thereby, the stability of the overall mass production and the device yield can be both improved.

Method for improving mass-production yield of large-area organic solar cells

A method of making a solar cell includes: preparing an active layer solution including p-type and n-type organic semiconductor materials, a solvent, and an additive, the additive containing 1, 8-iodooctane (DIO) and 1-chloronaphthalene (CN) that has a total volume not greater than 3 vol % based on a total volume of the solvent and the additive; preparing an assembly having a substrate, a first electrode layer, and a first transporting layer; coating the active layer solution on the first transporting layer to form a wet active layer; drying the wet active layer at a temperature not greater than 60&#xb0; C.; and forming a second transporting layer and a second electrode layer on the active layer.

Method of making a solar cell

A method for manufacturing large-area organic solar cells utilizes a hot solvent vapor annealing manufacturing process while manufacturing the organic solar cells via a large-area proceeding method, such as spraying. Namely, a heated solvent vapor is utilized to modify an active layer after the active layer of the organic solar cells is formed, which ensures a flatness and an uniformity thereof and increases a crystallinity of the active layer and an element charge transport rate so that a power conversion efficiency of the large area organic solar cells is increased, a proceeding time is quite short, and the performance thereof is quite obvious. Therefore, the method not only reduces the cost by a large area production but obtains organic solar cells with higher conversion efficiency.

Method for manufacturing large-area organic solar cells

A method for manufacturing membrane layers of organic solar cells by roll to roll coating utilizes a roll to roll process for manufacturing an electron transferring layer and an active layer of the organic solar cells is disclosed. The roll to roll process adopted by the method cooperates with a particular solvent and accompanies a parameter control such as temperature and processing time during the sintering and baking steps. The method utilizes a slot-die coating technique in the interim, whereby a membrane layer of the solar cells can be manufactured with a large area for reducing the cost, and the formed membrane layers can have a good efficiency.

Method for manufacturing constituent layers of polymer solar cells by roll to roll coating

A method and system for adjusting power supply and display screen brightness of an electronic device with a thin-film solar panel are introduced. The method includes configuring the electronic device with a first threshold level and a second threshold level, wherein the first threshold level and the second threshold level are voltage levels or current levels; attaching the thin-film solar panel to a casing of the electronic device for enabling the electronic device to convert an external light into a transformed voltage or current; and determining whether the transformed voltage or current lies between the first threshold level and the second threshold level to decide whether to allow the display screen to operate at an existing brightness level thereof continuously. The method and system enable the electronic device to receive the external light for supplementing power supple and sense the external light for adjusting power level.

Method and system for adjusting power supply and display screen brightness of electronic device with thin-film solar panel

The present invention provides a method for supplying fuel to a fuel cell, in which a monitoring period is determined for monitoring the fuel cell, and then a feeding amount of fuel is determined by integrating characteristic value generated from the fuel cell in the monitoring period. In another embodiment, it is further comprising a step of determining the variation profile associated with the characteristic value during the period so as to judge whether it is necessary to feed the fuel into the fuel cell or not. By means of the present invention, the supplying of fuel to the fuel cell under dynamic loadings can be effectively controlled for optimizing the performance of the fuel cell as well as reducing the cost without installing any fuel sensor.

Method for supplying fuel to fuel cell

A method of hybrid power management is provided in the present invention, comprising steps of: providing a hybrid power output device being coupled to a load and comprising a fuel cell module and a secondary cell module; determining a plurality of threshold values, each representing one of output power modes of the hybrid power output device respectively; and monitoring a characteristic value output from the fuel cell module and comparing the characteristic value with the threshold values to determine one of the output power modes to supply power to the load. Moreover, the present invention further provides a system of hybrid power management using the foregoing method to control switches to select from the output power modes such as supplying power from the fuel cell module only, from both the fuel cell module and the secondary battery, or cutting off power supply to the load according to the power state of the fuel cell module.

Method and system of hybrid power management

A structure of fuel cell assembly is disclosed. A flow channel plate with a plurality of flow fields is respectively disposed on two sides of a fuel cell unit. A plurality of graphic electrodes is arranged on two sides of the fuel cell unit and the flow field matches the graphic electrodes. Thus water generated from reaction of the fuel cell is removed and further reduction of the performance of the fuel cell is avoided. Moreover, fuel is distributed more uniformly over reaction area of the cell. And the number of fuel cells stacked per unit volume is increased. Therefore, the efficiency of the fuel cell is improved.

Structure of fuel cell assembly

An ultrasonic wave passes different fuels of different concentrations with different velocities. The present invention provides a detecting and controlling device where, by a non-touching method, a velocity for an ultrasonic wave in a first fuel with a first fuel concentration is measured. The velocity obtained is taken for a comparison with another velocity for the same ultrasonic wave in a fuel with a default fuel concentration so that the first fuel concentration of the fuel can be under controlled.

Fuel-concentration detecting and controlling device for fuel cell

A method for manufacturing membrane electrode assembly of fuel cell includes positioning an ion exchange membrane that is cleaned and trimmed to a predetermined size in advance to a base plate, mounting the base plate to a printing platform, attaching a printing plate to the platform, coating a catalyst solution on the printing plate with a scraper, printing the catalyst solution onto the ion exchange membrane with the scraper, heating the ion exchange with a heating board to a temperature of 70&#x2013;80&#xb0; C., and waiting for the ion exchange membrane to return flat to complete the coating of the catalyst solution on the ion exchange membrane. The printing and heating steps are repeated for both anode and cathode of the ion exchange membrane. The ion exchange membrane is further subject to hot pressing and then a piece of carbon cloth is positioned on the catalyst coating to serve as a diffusion layer. This completes the manufacturing of the membrane electrode assembly.

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Taoyuan, Taiwan

Charn-Ying Chen