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.
- Publication Date:
- 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.
@article{osti_1468738,
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 = {2018},
month = {8}
}
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