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Scribing Method for Carbon Perovskite Solar Modules
Energies, Volume: 13, Issue: 7, Start page: 1589
Swansea University Authors: Simone Meroni , Katherine Hooper, Tom O. Dunlop , Jenny Baker , David Worsley , Cecile Charbonneau , Trystan Watson , Katherine Elizabeth Anne Hooper , Tom Dunlop
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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/en13071589
Abstract
The fully printable carbon triple-mesoscopic perovskite solar cell (C-PSC) has already demonstrated good efficiency and long-term stability, opening the possibility of lab-to-fab transition. Modules based on C-PSC architecture have been reported and, at present, are achieved through the accurate reg...
Published in: | Energies |
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ISSN: | 1996-1073 |
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MDPI AG
2020
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URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53872 |
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The fully printable carbon triple-mesoscopic perovskite solar cell (C-PSC) has already demonstrated good efficiency and long-term stability, opening the possibility of lab-to-fab transition. Modules based on C-PSC architecture have been reported and, at present, are achieved through the accurate registration of each of the patterned layers using screen-printing. Modules based on this approach were reported with geometric fill factor (g-FF) as high as 70%. Another approach to create the interconnects, the so-called scribing method, was reported to achieve more than 90% g-FF for architectures based on evaporated metal contacts, i.e., without a carbon counter electrode. Here, for the first time, we adopt the scribing method to selectively remove materials within a C-PSC. This approach allowed a deep and selective scribe to open an aperture from the transparent electrode through all the layers, including the blocking layer, enabling a direct contact between the electrodes in the interconnects. In this work, a systematic study of the interconnection area between cells is discussed, showing the key role of the FTO/carbon contact. Furthermore, a module on 10 × 10 cm2 substrate with the optimised design showing efficiency over 10% is also demonstrated. |
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perovskite; solar cells; carbon; screen-printing; up-scaling; module; scribing |
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7 |
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1589 |