期刊
ENERGY SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
卷 1, 期 2, 页码 81-88出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/ese3.8
关键词
Device architecture; large scale; life-cycle assessment; polymer; roll-to-roll; serial connection; thermoelectric
资金
- Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Higher Education through the EliteForsk initiative
- Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Higher Education through Grundfos award
Here, we present a process based on roll-to-roll (R2R) technology which allows for very fast processing of polymer thermoelectric (TE) devices and we furthermore demonstrate a simplified but more efficient way of serially connecting these devices by means of R2R thin-film processing. The new device architecture makes it possible to use only one TE material (opposed to two materials which are employed in well-known Peltier elements), and a total of 18,000 serially connected junctions were prepared by flexoprinting of silver electrodes and by rotary screen printing of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT):polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) as the TE material. Testing of devices revealed that the new architecture clearly showed to be functioning as expected, but also pointed toward challenges for thin-film TE development which is the influence of the substrate thickness on the thermal gradient over a device and the currently low performance available. A life-cycle assessment (LCA) was carried out in order to evaluate the sustainability of the new architecture and to estimate the requirements for development of a successful technology.
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