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1. A
Seminar report
on
ELECTRICITY GENERATION USING BY PLASTIC CELL
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGG
BUNDELKHAND INSTITUTE OF ENGG & TECHNOLOGY, JHANSI
Presented by: Under guidance of:
Saurabh Chauhan Er. Pushpendra singh
1604320909 Electrical engg deptt.

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 INFRARED PLASTIC SOLAR CELL
 TYPES OF SOLAR CELL
 DESIGN AND WORKING OF PLASTIC SOLAR CELL
 APPLICATIONS
 ADVANTAGES
 LIMITATIONS
 COCLUSION
 REFERENCES

3. INTRODUCTION
• Ever since the discovery (in 1977) of conducting plastic (polymer
which feature conjugate double bonds, that enable electrons to move
through them), for which prof.Alan heeger was awarded a noble prize.
• Conventional solar cell has high cost & morequired area.
• National Nanotechnology Initiative, which defines nanotechnology as
the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to
100 nanometer.
• ISA & krnatka solar park.

4. INFRARED PLASTIC SOLAR CELL
 Nanoparticles(quantum dots)
with plastic is used to detect
energy in infrared.
 It converts 30% sun's radiant
energy.
 Large amount of energy through
solar farms.
 Former cells covert only 6%
sun's energy.

5. QUANTUM DOTS
• Its uses specialy desgined nano
particles called quantum dots.
• It detect energy from sun's
radiant energy.
• Nano particles of
semiconducting mat(5nm).

6. TYPES OF SOLAR CELLS
SOLAR CELL
1st generation
wafer based
2nd generation
thin film
3rd generation
emerging
technology(Nano)

7. WAFER TYPE THIN FILM TYPE

8. DESIGN OF PLASTIC SOLAR CELL
• Nanorod/polymer layer(CdSe+Poly-
3hexylthiophene,P3HT) .
• Plastic covered with indiam-tin oxide.
• PEDOT:PSS(hole transport layer),
poly(ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with
polystyrenesulfonic acid.
• Vaccume deposition tech & solution
processing tech is used active layer.

9. Working of plastic solar cell
Lowest unoccupied molecular orbital(conduction band)

10. APPLICATIONS
• Car painted with the film.
• Painted with portable devices
laptop,calculator etc.
• Possibility of printing as newspaper.
• Any chip can be formed.
• Due to light in weight , it is useful in
small as well as vast application

11. ADVANTAGES
• 30% more efficient than con-solar cell.
• Useful in large as well as small app.
• Flexible, roller possesed solar cell.
• Compact in nature.
• More practical in application.
• Cloudy days.

12. LIMITATIONS
• Cost effectiveness.
• Shorter life(continuous exposed).
• Requir higher maintenance.
• Constant monitoring.
• Skilled worker required.

13. CONCLUSION
• The prospect that light weight and flexible polymer solar cells can be
produced, has spurred interests from research institutes and
companies.
• Plastic solar cells help in exploiting the infrared radiation from the
sun's rays.
• They can even work on cloudy days, more compact and less bulky.
• By using different chemical, it's possible.

14. REFERENCES
• [1] Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties and Applications : Edelstein,
A. S., Cammarata, R. C., Eds.; Institute of Physics Publishing: Bristol
and Philadelphia, 1996.
• [2] The Coming Era of Nanotechnology; 1987. Drexler, K. Eric,
Doubleday; New York
• [3] Conjugated Polymer-Based Organic Solar Cells:Serap Gunes,
Helmut Neugebauer, and Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Chem. Rev. 2007,
107, 1324-1338 [4] Modeling the optical absorption within conjugated
polymer/fullerene-based bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells: H.
Hoppea, N. Arnoldb, N.S. Sariciftcia, D. Meissner, Solar Energy
Materials & Solar Cells 80 (2003) 105–113.

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