Equipments

I. Device Fabrication

1. A state-of-the-art solar cell fabrication line including spin coater, substrate treatment, electrode deposition, device encapsulation, I-V and aging measurement.

2. Two spin coaters from Laurell

3. Spraying system

4. A screen printing equipment

5. Two thermal evaporators

 

6. An ultraviolet ozone cleaning system

 II. Device Characterization

1. AAA class (Certification from JIS C 8912, ASTM E927-05, IEC 60904-9 criterions) solar simulator with an effective irradiated area of 70 mm×70 mm;

2. A measurement system for polymer photovoltaic module;

3. Keithley 237/Keithley 2400 source meters for four-probe experiment and current-voltage sweep;

4. Incident photon to current efficiency (quantum efficiency) measurement system with Newport xenon light source;

5. Closed liquid helium cryogenic system (10K~500K) with lakeshore temperature controller

6. Two lifetime measurement equipments for solar cells

 

7. A vacuum freeze drying equipment;

 III. Morphology & Metrology

1. A 5420 Atomic Force Microscope

2. A D-100 surface profiler from KLA-Tencor

3. A Brookfield DV-III ULTRA Rheometer with programmable controller;

4. SEM, EDX, TEM, XPS, UPS, XRD and Ellipsometer (in public lab);

 IV. Spectroscopy Analysis

1. A PerkinElmer Lambda 750 UV/VIS/NIR spectrophotometer;

2. High perfomance optical microscope from Olympus;

3. Steady/transient states and time resolved fluorescence spectrometer with two picosecond laser excitated sources from Edinburgh Instruments;

4. A Carl Zeiss polarizing microscope

5. A gas chromatograph station