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Title: Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells

Abstract

Perovskite based photovoltaic devices hold the promise to greatly reduce the cost of solar energy production; however, this potential depends greatly on the ability to deposit perovskite active layers using large scale deposition methods such as slot-die coating without sacrificing efficiency. Using a perovskite precursor ink with long wet-film processing window, we demonstrate efficient perovskite solar cells based on slot-die coated perovskite layer. We found almost no difference in the photophysical and structural details of perovskite films that were deposited by spin coating to films deposited by slot-die coating. Furthermore, we explored various slot-die coating parameters to determine their effect on the performance of the device metrics. In addition to slot-die coating, we demonstrate the versatility of this wide wet-film processing window by fabricating perovskite solar cells with active layers deposited by spin coating, blade coating, and spray coating that all exhibited similar performance.

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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1468738
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1464568
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5900-71764
Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902; SEFUA7
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2398-4902
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; perovskites; solar cells; deposition; slot-die coating

Citation Formats

Whitaker, James B., Kim, Dong Hoe, Larson, Bryon W., Zhang, Fei, Berry, Joseph J., van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., and Zhu, Kai. Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1039/C8SE00368H.
Whitaker, James B., Kim, Dong Hoe, Larson, Bryon W., Zhang, Fei, Berry, Joseph J., van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., & Zhu, Kai. Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00368H
Whitaker, James B., Kim, Dong Hoe, Larson, Bryon W., Zhang, Fei, Berry, Joseph J., van Hest, Maikel F. A. M., and Zhu, Kai. Fri . "Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8SE00368H. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1468738.
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title = {Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells},
author = {Whitaker, James B. and Kim, Dong Hoe and Larson, Bryon W. and Zhang, Fei and Berry, Joseph J. and van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. and Zhu, Kai},
abstractNote = {Perovskite based photovoltaic devices hold the promise to greatly reduce the cost of solar energy production; however, this potential depends greatly on the ability to deposit perovskite active layers using large scale deposition methods such as slot-die coating without sacrificing efficiency. Using a perovskite precursor ink with long wet-film processing window, we demonstrate efficient perovskite solar cells based on slot-die coated perovskite layer. We found almost no difference in the photophysical and structural details of perovskite films that were deposited by spin coating to films deposited by slot-die coating. Furthermore, we explored various slot-die coating parameters to determine their effect on the performance of the device metrics. In addition to slot-die coating, we demonstrate the versatility of this wide wet-film processing window by fabricating perovskite solar cells with active layers deposited by spin coating, blade coating, and spray coating that all exhibited similar performance.},
doi = {10.1039/C8SE00368H},
journal = {Sustainable Energy & Fuels},
number = ,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Fri Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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