Room Temperature Processing of Inorganic Perovskite Films to Enable Flexible Solar Cells
Abstract
Inorganic lead halide perovskite materials have attracted great attention recently due to their potential for greater thermal stability compared with hybrid organic perovskites. However, the high processing temperature to convert from the non-perovskite phase to the cubic perovskite phase in many of these systems has limited their application in flexible optoelectronic devices. Here, we report a room temperature processed inorganic perovskite solar cell (PSC) based on CsPbI2Br as the light harvesting layer. By combining this composition with key precursor solvents, we show that inorganic perovskite films can be prepared by the vacuum-assist method under room temperature conditions in air. Unencapsulated devices achieved power conversion efficiency up to 8.67% when measured under 1-sun irradiation. Exploiting this room temperature process, flexible inorganic PSCs based on an inorganic metal halide perovskite material are demonstrated.
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- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1466414
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- OSTI ID: 1623677
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010472
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- iScience
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: iScience Journal Volume: 6 Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2589-0042
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- Netherlands
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Liu, Dianyi, Yang, Chenchen, Bates, Matthew, and Lunt, Richard R. Room Temperature Processing of Inorganic Perovskite Films to Enable Flexible Solar Cells. Netherlands: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2018.08.005.
Liu, Dianyi, Yang, Chenchen, Bates, Matthew, & Lunt, Richard R. Room Temperature Processing of Inorganic Perovskite Films to Enable Flexible Solar Cells. Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.08.005
Liu, Dianyi, Yang, Chenchen, Bates, Matthew, and Lunt, Richard R. Wed .
"Room Temperature Processing of Inorganic Perovskite Films to Enable Flexible Solar Cells". Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2018.08.005.
@article{osti_1466414,
title = {Room Temperature Processing of Inorganic Perovskite Films to Enable Flexible Solar Cells},
author = {Liu, Dianyi and Yang, Chenchen and Bates, Matthew and Lunt, Richard R.},
abstractNote = {Inorganic lead halide perovskite materials have attracted great attention recently due to their potential for greater thermal stability compared with hybrid organic perovskites. However, the high processing temperature to convert from the non-perovskite phase to the cubic perovskite phase in many of these systems has limited their application in flexible optoelectronic devices. Here, we report a room temperature processed inorganic perovskite solar cell (PSC) based on CsPbI2Br as the light harvesting layer. By combining this composition with key precursor solvents, we show that inorganic perovskite films can be prepared by the vacuum-assist method under room temperature conditions in air. Unencapsulated devices achieved power conversion efficiency up to 8.67% when measured under 1-sun irradiation. Exploiting this room temperature process, flexible inorganic PSCs based on an inorganic metal halide perovskite material are demonstrated.},
doi = {10.1016/j.isci.2018.08.005},
journal = {iScience},
number = C,
volume = 6,
place = {Netherlands},
year = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1: Characterization of CsPbI2Br Precursor Solutions and Films (A) Photograph of CsPbI2Br precursor solutions prepared by various solvents. The inset shows the films prepared by the corresponding precursor solutions with the room temperature process. (B) Scanning electron micrograph of CsPbI2Br films with various annealing temperatures. The inset shows themore »
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