High-performance PV materials from Merck
Photovoltaics (PV): Solar cells will become a dominant energy source of the future. Important PV technologies are crystalline silicon cells, thin-film solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells and organic photovoltaic cells. All these cell devices compete with respect to their ability to improve energy efficiency and continuously lower production costs. Merck is promoting this development by supplying innovative, easy-to-use materials and formulations for next-generation solar cells - products which enable our customers to improve cell performance and to save costs in cell manufacturing. Merck focuses on novel materials, formulations and process chemicals for both printing and chemical coating technologies used in solar cell manufacture.
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Structuring solutions
Merck's isishape SolarEtch® product program offers a broad range of innovative structuring materials that enable simplified and environmentally friendly processes, improved efficiency, and higher production speed for the manufacturing of today's and tomorrow's solar cells.
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Organic electronics for PV
Organic semiconductors are important materials for the development of cost-efficient and flexible thin-film solar cells. Our program of proprietary charge transportation materials is especially designed for improved bulk heterojunction solar cell applications and novel organic photovoltaic cell concepts.
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Ionic liquids
Next-generation photovoltaic cells based on dye-sensitized cell concepts ("dye solar cells", DSC) will allow a further reduction of production costs as well as completely new designs of flexible, semi-transparent, or integrated applications of solar cells. With its program of proprietary electrolyte materials based on ionic liquids, Merck is contributing to a fast implementation of this emerging technology.
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Research and development
Furthermore, Merck is constantly developing new materials for next-generation solar cells. In addition to our activities in crystalline solar cells, our development program focuses on printed formulations for inorganic thin-film cells based on advanced organic materials for novel cell concepts.
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