Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells

James B. Whitaker; Dong Hoe Kim; Bryon W. Larson; Fei Zhang; Joseph J. Berry; Maikel F.A.M. Van Hest; Kai Zhu

doi:10.1039/c8se00368h

Scalable slot-die coating of high performance perovskite solar cells

James B. Whitaker
, Dong Hoe Kim
, Bryon W. Larson
, Fei Zhang
, Joseph J. Berry
, Maikel F.A.M. Van Hest^*
, Kai Zhu

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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. 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2442-2449
Number of pages	8
Journal	Sustainable Energy and Fuels
Volume	2
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00368h
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under contract no. DEAC36-08GO28308 with Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, the Manager and Operator of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The authors acknowledge support from the US Department of Energy/National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program.

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© The Royal Society of Chemistry.

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