Photovoltaic textile structure using polyaniline/carbon nanotube composite materials |
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| Authors: | Ayse Bedeloglu Pablo Jimenez Ali Demir Yalcin Bozkurt Wolfgang K. Maser Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Textile Engineering Department , Dokuz Eylul University , Izmir, Turkey ayse.celik@deu.edu.tr;3. Department of Nanotechnology , Instituto de ?Carboquímica (CSIC) , Zaragoza, Spain;4. School of Textile Technologies and Design , Istanbul Technical University , Istanbul, Turkey;5. Textile Engineering Department , Dokuz Eylul University , Izmir, Turkey;6. Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Institute of Pysical Chemistry , Johannes Kepler University , Linz, Austria |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, an investigation of flexible electrodes for photovoltaic textile structures utilizing polymer‐based organic materials is presented. The composite structure consisting of a blend of water dispersible carbon nanotube:polyaniline (CNT:PANI) components with poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) was applied to be used as the hole collecting electrode in photovoltaic textile applications. Both photovoltaic textiles and conventional solar cells were fabricated by using a blend of poly(3‐hexylthiophene‐2,5‐diyl) (P3HT):(6,6)‐phenyl C61‐butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM). All devices were characterized by measuring current versus voltage characteristics under AM 1.5 conditions. The nanoscale morphology of the photovoltaic structures was investigated using scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. |
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| Keywords: | carbon nanotube composite material photovoltaic textile polyaniline organic solar cell |
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