本研究以提升產出速度(throughput rate)為出發點，採軟式層壓法取代一般方法來備製反式有機太陽能電池。一般備製太陽能電池之方法係將材料由下至上，層層生長於一片基板之上；而軟式層壓法則將材料分別生長於上、下兩片基板，再予以貼合。由於上、下基板之製程可同時進行，故可將生產流程一分為二，進而縮短產製時間。以本實驗室之標準製作流程為例，一般方法產製一組八片太陽能電池基板需耗時450分鐘，而軟式層壓法僅需280分鐘。以軟式層壓法製做之太陽能電池，其光電轉換效率達2.41％，與一般製程電池之效率值2.54％相去不遠。
此外，我們運用軟式層壓法可有效地將反式有機太陽能電池串聯在一起，串聯後短路電流維持穩定而開路電壓與串接之電池數呈倍數成長。我們亦嘗式運用軟式層壓法於電極層上建立抗反射結構，以增加太陽能電池的光補捉能力，如此光電轉換效率可提升至2.65％。

The initial motivation of this study is to increase the throughput rate for fabricating the inverted type organic solar cells (OSCs) by applying the soft contact lamination (SCL) method in place of the ordinary method. The ordinary method means to deposit the OSC materials layer by layer in the bottom-up sequence on one panel; on the other hand, the SCL method is to deposit the OSC materials individually on the top and the bottom plates before laminating them together. The treatments on the top and the bottom plates can be carried out in the mean time, hence the work flow is divided for reducing the throughput time. Taking the standard fabrication procedure of our laboratory for example, it takes about 450 minutes to fabricate eight pieces of OSC devices in one throughput by using ordinary method, but only 280 minutes by using SCL method. The power converting efficiency (PCE) of the SCL-fabricated OSC reaches 2.41%, which is comparable to the PCE of 2.54% of the ordinary-fabricated OSC.
Moreover, we applied the SCL method to connect the inverted OSCs in a series circuit effectively, the short circuit current maintains stable and the open circuit voltage increases linearly with the number of OSCs connected. We also built an anti-reflection structure on the electrode to enhance the light trapping ability of our SCL-fabricated OSC, which increased the PCE to 2.65%.

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