Laminate, organic thin film solar cell, method for manufacturing laminate, and method for manufacturing organic thin film solar cell

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11683944-B2
Application number	US-202017760631-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2020
Priority date	Oct 8, 2019
Publication date	Jun 20, 2023
Grant date	Jun 20, 2023

Abstract

A laminate which allows to obtain an organic thin-film solar cell having excellent output characteristics and transparency is provided. The laminate as above has a titanium oxide layer that is disposed on the member serving as a light-transmissive electrode layer and serves as an electron transport layer. The titanium oxide layer has a thickness of not less than 1.0 nm and not more than 200.0 nm. The titanium oxide layer contains indium oxide and metallic indium, InOx/Ti is not less than 0.50 and not more than 20.00 in atomic ratio, and InM/Ti is less than 0.100 in atomic ratio, where an elemental titanium content is represented by Ti, an indium oxide content is represented by InOx, and a metallic indium content is represented by InM.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A laminate serving as a light-transmissive electrode layer and an electron transport layer of an organic thin-film solar cell including the light-transmissive electrode layer, the electron transport layer, an organic semiconductor layer, a hole transport layer and a collector electrode layer in this order, the laminate comprising:
a member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer; and
a titanium oxide layer that is disposed on the member serving as the light-transmissive electrode layer and serves as the electron transport layer,
wherein the titanium oxide layer has a thickness of not less than 1.0 nm and not more than 200.0 nm, and
wherein the titanium oxide layer contains indium oxide and metallic indium, InOx/Ti is not less than 0.50 and not more than 20.00 in atomic ratio, and InM/Ti is less than 0.100 in atomic ratio, where an elemental titanium content is represented by Ti, an indium oxide content is represented by InOx, and a metallic indium content is represented by InM.

2. An organic thin-film solar cell including a light-transmissive electrode layer, an electron transport layer, an organic semiconductor layer, a hole transport layer and a collector electrode layer in this order and using the laminate according to claim 1 .

3. A laminate producing method for producing the laminate according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
subjecting the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer to cathode polarization and then to anode polarization in a treatment solution containing a Ti component to thereby form the titanium oxide layer on the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer.

4. The laminate producing method according to claim 3 , wherein a Ti content of the treatment solution is not less than 0.004 mol/L and not more than 1.300 mol/L.

5. The laminate producing method according to claim 3 , wherein the Ti component is at least one selected from the group consisting of hexafluorotitanic acid, potassium hexafluorotitanate, sodium hexafluorotitanate, ammonium hexafluorotitanate, ammonium titanyl oxalate, potassium titanyl oxalate dihydrate, titanium sulfate, and titanium lactate.

6. The laminate producing method according to claim 4 , wherein the Ti component is at least one selected from the group consisting of hexafluorotitanic acid, potassium hexafluorotitanate, sodium hexafluorotitanate, ammonium hexafluorotitanate, ammonium titanyl oxalate, potassium titanyl oxalate dihydrate, titanium sulfate, and titanium lactate.

7. The laminate producing method according to claim 3 , wherein current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as a cathode, and then current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as an anode.

8. The laminate producing method according to claim 4 , wherein current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as a cathode, and then current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as an anode.

9. The laminate producing method according to claim 5 , wherein current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as a cathode, and then current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as an anode.

10. The laminate producing method according to claim 6 , wherein current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as a cathode, and then current is applied at a current density of not less than 0.01 A/dm 2 and not more than 5.00 A/dm 2 with the member that serves as the light-transmissive electrode layer being used as an anode.

11. An organic thin-film solar cell producing method for producing an organic thin-film solar cell including a light-transmissive electrode layer, an electron transport layer, an organic semiconductor layer, a hole transport layer and a collector electrode layer in this order by using the laminate according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Jfe Steel Corp
• Univ Hokkaido Nat Univ Corp

Inventors

• Suto Mikito
• Masuoka Hiroyuki
• Matsuzaki Akira
• Habazaki Hiroki
• Kobayashi Hikaru

Classifications

• H10K30/82 Primary

  Transparent electrodes, e.g. indium tin oxide [ITO] electrodes · CPC title

• H10K30/40

  comprising a p-i-n structure, e.g. having a perovskite absorber between p-type and n-type charge transport layers · CPC title

• H10K30/30

  comprising bulk heterojunctions, e.g. interpenetrating networks of donor and acceptor material domains · CPC title

• H10K71/60

  Forming conductive regions or layers, e.g. electrodes · CPC title

• H10K2102/101

  comprising transparent conductive oxides [TCO] · CPC title