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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2020
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
A photovoltaic device () with a plurality of photovoltaic modules (A, IB, . . . , IF), is disclosed herein comprising a stack with a primary electrode layer (), a secondary electrode layer () and a photovoltaic layer () arranged between said primary and said secondary electrode layer, at least one of the electrode layers being translucent, the photovoltaic layer () at least comprising a first sublayer of a photovoltaic material and a second, charge carrier transport sublayer between said first sublayer and said secondary electrode layer. An serial electrical interconnection between mutually subsequent photovoltaic modules (IB,C) is provided by a coupling element of insulating material laterally enclosing an electrically conducting core (BC) provided in the interface section between the mutually subsequent photovoltaic modules. Therewith a lifetime of the photovoltaic material is improved.