Towards low-cost manufacturing of organic solar cells: Multi-criteria assessment of fabrication technologies

Abstract

Solution-processed organic solar cells have recently gained considerable attention and are becoming a future solar technology option. This study is intended to improve the assessment of the operation parameters of these manufacturing technologies in order to propose a low-cost patterning technique suitable for a successful high-volume manufacturing of full organic solar cells. The assessment will take into account quantitative and qualitative parameters, such as technical issues, environmental impact or reproducibility of the fabrication output. Multi-criteria decision making methods will be used to model the problem of fabrication technique selection, combining these techniques with fuzzy numbers which serve to assess the criteria valued with linguistic labels.