Abstracts Book - IMRC 2018

• SC4-P052
INFLUENCE OF MESOPOROUS LAYER ON SCALE UP OF THIRD
GENERATION SOLAR CELLS
Alessary Saadi Monroy 1 , Manuel Alejandro Estrella Gutierrez 1 , Renan Andres Escalante
Quijano 2 , Dena Pourjafari 2 , Gerko Oskam 2
1
Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Mexico. 2 CINVESTAV-
Mérida, Física Aplicada, Mexico.
Third-generation photovoltaics have been the center of attention due to their
easy and low cost fabrication process. The silicon photovoltaics industry has
managed to markedly decrease the cost of solar panels. Due to very strong
efforts focused on the fabrication of cost effective systems, the use of earthabundant
materials, simple and inexpensive fabrication processes and short
energy payback time. Industrialization of third-generation devices, in particular
the dye-sensitized solar cell and the hybrid perovskite solar cell, still has faced
with some challenges, however, the mentioned advantages of these cells, make
them suitable for especially indoor application. In this work the study of the
influence of mesoporous layer such as type and thickness on the performance
of the device is provided. Mini-modules of third generation photovoltaics were
fabricated using titania and alumina as a mesoporous layer and the thickness of
the layer was optimized in order to improve the mini-module performance.
Keywords: Third generation solar cells, Scale up, Mesoporous layer
Presenting authors email: alessary.sm@gmail.com