Photonic Curing of Nickel Oxide Transport Layer and Perovskite Active Layer for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells: A Path Towards High-Throughput Manufacturing
Abstract
High-throughput roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is currently limited by thermal processes that take tens of minutes each, translating to impractically long annealing tools at high web speeds. In addition, PSCs are usually made with metal oxide transport layer materials that require high temperatures for thermal annealing. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of PSCs using photonic curing, instead of thermal annealing, to convert NiO x directly from sol-gel precursors for hole transport layers and to crystallize methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) active layers on flexible Willow ® Glass substrates. Photonic curing uses short, intense pulses of light to process materials at a high speed, hence it is compatible with R2R manufacturing. We achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 11.7% in forward-scan and 10.9% in reverse-scan for PSCs made with photonic cured NiO x and MAPbI 3 films. Furthermore, both NiO x and MAPbI 3 films could be processed with a single photonic curing pulse, with a web speed of 5.7 m/min, and still produce PCEs comparable to thermally annealed control samples. Based on the single-pulse photonic curing condition for each film, we project a web speed of 26 m/min, laying a pathway to high-throughput production of perovskite solarmore »
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- Univ. of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2325406
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- OSTI ID: 1766655
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- EE0008544
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Energy Research
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Frontiers in Energy Research Journal Volume: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2296-598X
- Publisher:
- Frontiers Media SA
- Country of Publication:
- Switzerland
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; photonic curing; intense pulsed light; perovskite solar cells; roll-to-roll; high-throughput; nickel oxide; hole transport
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Piper, Robert T., Daunis, Trey B., Xu, Weijie, Schroder, Kurt A., and Hsu, Julia W. P. Photonic Curing of Nickel Oxide Transport Layer and Perovskite Active Layer for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells: A Path Towards High-Throughput Manufacturing. Switzerland: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.3389/fenrg.2021.640960.
Piper, Robert T., Daunis, Trey B., Xu, Weijie, Schroder, Kurt A., & Hsu, Julia W. P. Photonic Curing of Nickel Oxide Transport Layer and Perovskite Active Layer for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells: A Path Towards High-Throughput Manufacturing. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.640960
Piper, Robert T., Daunis, Trey B., Xu, Weijie, Schroder, Kurt A., and Hsu, Julia W. P. Fri .
"Photonic Curing of Nickel Oxide Transport Layer and Perovskite Active Layer for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells: A Path Towards High-Throughput Manufacturing". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2021.640960.
@article{osti_2325406,
title = {Photonic Curing of Nickel Oxide Transport Layer and Perovskite Active Layer for Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells: A Path Towards High-Throughput Manufacturing},
author = {Piper, Robert T. and Daunis, Trey B. and Xu, Weijie and Schroder, Kurt A. and Hsu, Julia W. P.},
abstractNote = {High-throughput roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is currently limited by thermal processes that take tens of minutes each, translating to impractically long annealing tools at high web speeds. In addition, PSCs are usually made with metal oxide transport layer materials that require high temperatures for thermal annealing. Here, we demonstrate the fabrication of PSCs using photonic curing, instead of thermal annealing, to convert NiO x directly from sol-gel precursors for hole transport layers and to crystallize methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) active layers on flexible Willow ® Glass substrates. Photonic curing uses short, intense pulses of light to process materials at a high speed, hence it is compatible with R2R manufacturing. We achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 11.7% in forward-scan and 10.9% in reverse-scan for PSCs made with photonic cured NiO x and MAPbI 3 films. Furthermore, both NiO x and MAPbI 3 films could be processed with a single photonic curing pulse, with a web speed of 5.7 m/min, and still produce PCEs comparable to thermally annealed control samples. Based on the single-pulse photonic curing condition for each film, we project a web speed of 26 m/min, laying a pathway to high-throughput production of perovskite solar modules.},
doi = {10.3389/fenrg.2021.640960},
journal = {Frontiers in Energy Research},
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volume = 9,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
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