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.