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Predicting a process window for the roll-to-roll deposition of solvent-engineered SnO2 in perovskite solar cells
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Trystan Watson
Materials Advances
Swansea University Authors:
Dave Richards, Daniel Burkitt, Rahul Patidar, David Beynon , Trystan Watson
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DOI (Published version): 10.1039/d2ma00841f
Abstract
Lightweight flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer advantages over rigid solar cells including power to weight, variety of form factor and ability to scale. With breakthroughs in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PSCs, scaling up PSCs with similar performance has become a topic of inter...
| Published in: | Materials Advances |
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| ISSN: | 2633-5409 |
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61921 |
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Lightweight flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs) offer advantages over rigid solar cells including power to weight, variety of form factor and ability to scale. With breakthroughs in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PSCs, scaling up PSCs with similar performance has become a topic of interest. Roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing is one promising method to leverage the low temperature processing ability of PSCs. In this work, we demonstrate the R2R slot-die coating of the SnO2 electron transport layer, applying the low flow limit to showcase its pertinence in assessing the coating window for slot-die coating. It was observed that low flow limit can accurately predict the processing window for solvent-engineered SnO2 solutions streamlining scale up from benchtop to full R2R coating. We achieved a PCE of 16.35% for R2R-coated SnO2-based MAPbI3 perovskite devices exceeding the performance of benchtop-coated devices. |
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This work is in part funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Government and was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
Council (EPSRC) through the SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre (EP/N020863/1, EP/T028513/1) Self-assembling Perovskite Absorbers—Cells Engineered into Modules Project
(EP/M015254/2). This project has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska—Curie grant agreement no. 764787. The authors would like to acknowledge the Financial support provided by the M2A that has been made possible through funding from the European Social Fund via the Welsh Government, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L015099/1) and Tata Steel Europe that has made
this research possible. |