Roll-to-Roll Printing of Perovskite Solar Cells

Dou, Benjia; Bruening, Karsten; Moore, David T.; Wheeler, Lance M.; Ryter, John; Breslin, Nicholas J.; Berry, Joseph J.; Garner, Sean M.; Barnes, Frank S.; Shaheen, Sean E.; Tassone, Christopher J.; Zhu, Kai; van Hest, Maikel F. A. M.; Whitaker, James B.

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01556

Roll-to-Roll Printing of Perovskite Solar Cells

Journal Article · Wed Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Energy Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01556· OSTI ID:1490989

^[1]; Bruening, Karsten ^[2]; Moore, David T. ^[3]; ^[3]; Ryter, John ^[3]; Breslin, Nicholas J. ^[3]; Berry, Joseph J. ^[3]; Garner, Sean M. ^[4]; Barnes, Frank S. ^[5]; Shaheen, Sean E. ^[5]; Tassone, Christopher J. ^[2]; ^[3]; van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. ^[3]; Whitaker, James B. ^[3]

National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Corning Research & Development Corp., Corning, NY (United States)
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)

High efficiency combined with transformative roll-to-roll (R2R) printability makes metal halide perovskite-based solar cells the most promising solar technology to address the terawatt challenge of the future energy demand. However, translation from lab-scale deposition solution processing techniques to large-scale R2R methods has typically led to reduced photovoltaic performance. Here, we demonstrate large-scale, highly crystalline, uniaxially oriented, smooth perovskite films printed at room temperature and in the ambient environment. Confirmed with high speed in situ X-ray diffraction measurements, the perovskite films reach 98% of relative crystallinity at room temperature and display high texture within 1 s of the coating. We demonstrate an all-blade-coated metal halide perovskite cell with power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 19.6%, a slot-die coated cell with a PCE of 17.3%, and a partially R2R slot-die coated flexible glass-based cell efficiency of 14.1%. As a result the developed printing method can be applied to diverse perovskite compositions, enabling a variety of bandgaps to pave the way for the future R2R printing of highly efficient perovskite–perovskite tandem cells.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1490989

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1480236
OSTI ID: 1491406

Journal Information:: ACS Energy Letters, Journal Name: ACS Energy Letters Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 3; ISSN 2380-8195

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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