Holst Centre wins ‘Best Cell of the Year’

At this year’s ISOS-3 conference on OPV stability, Holst Centre’s flexible organic solar cell won the annual ‘Device of the Year’ award. Our achievement echoes the general success of the entire conference, which helped pave the way in standardising OPV parameters.

Held in Roskilde, Denmark from October 21 to 29, the third annual summit on OPV stability, ISOS-3, comprised two experimental roll-to-roll manufacturing OPV workshops, a scientific conference with poster session, and a summit with scientific talks on OPV stability. 75 people attended the latter part of the event which focused on defining a standard set of stability parameters and tests.

As part of the summit, companies had the chance to present a key OPV solution to win the ISOS Device of the Year prize. A total of six devices vied for the award, each one being tested and assessed by everyone taking part in the summit. The competition was judged by representatives from NREL, Plextronics, ECN, Konarka, Risø and Holst Centre.

A real product with real benefits
Holst Centre’s entry was voted ahead of other devices based on several merits. A real product, it is based on an ITO-free (Indium-Tin-Oxide-free) design that represents the cutting edge for low cost organic solar cells. By replacing the ITO transport layer with a composite electrode – a high conductive PEDOT:PSS and printed silver current collecting grid – this innovative approach improves processing, conductivity, price and cell size.

“I am proud to have presented our winning solar cell at the summit. It’s a great achievement for Holst Centre,” said Dr Yulia Galagan, from Holst Centre. “And the summit was also successful, with the development of a paper outlining guidelines for OPV standardization.”

Within the OPV program, Holst Centre teams up with ECN, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands.

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