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Roll-to-roll gravure-printed flexible perovskite solar cells using eco-friendly antisolvent bathing with wide processing window

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  • Young Yun Kim

    (Division of Advanced Materials, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))

  • Tae-Youl Yang

    (Division of Advanced Materials, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
    Chungnam National University)

  • Riikka Suhonen

    (Printed electronics processing, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)

  • Antti Kemppainen

    (Printed electronics processing, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)

  • Kyeongil Hwang

    (Division of Advanced Materials, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))

  • Nam Joong Jeon

    (Division of Advanced Materials, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))

  • Jangwon Seo

    (Division of Advanced Materials, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT))

Abstract

Driven by recent improvements in efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), upscaling of PSCs has come to be regarded as the next step. Specifically, a high-throughput, low-cost roll-to-roll (R2R) processes would be a breakthrough to realize the commercialization of PSCs, with uniform formation of precursor wet film and complete conversion to perovskite phase via R2R-compatible processes necessary to accomplish this goal. Herein, we demonstrate the pilot-scale, fully R2R manufacturing of all the layers except for electrodes in PSCs. Tert-butyl alcohol (tBuOH) is introduced as an eco-friendly antisolvent with a wide processing window. Highly crystalline, uniform formamidinium (FA)-based perovskite formation via tBuOH:EA bathing was confirmed by achieving high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 23.5% for glass-based spin-coated PSCs, and 19.1% for gravure-printed flexible PSCs. As an extended work, R2R gravure-printing and tBuOH:EA bathing resulted in the highest PCE reported for R2R-processed PSCs, 16.7% for PSCs with R2R-processed SnO2/FA-perovskite, and 13.8% for fully R2R-produced PSCs.

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  • Young Yun Kim & Tae-Youl Yang & Riikka Suhonen & Antti Kemppainen & Kyeongil Hwang & Nam Joong Jeon & Jangwon Seo, 2020. "Roll-to-roll gravure-printed flexible perovskite solar cells using eco-friendly antisolvent bathing with wide processing window," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-18940-5
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18940-5
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    1. Hasitha C. Weerasinghe & Nasiruddin Macadam & Jueng-Eun Kim & Luke J. Sutherland & Dechan Angmo & Leonard W. T. Ng & Andrew D. Scully & Fiona Glenn & Regine Chantler & Nathan L. Chang & Mohammad Dehgh, 2024. "The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Martin, Blake & Amos, Delaina & Brehob, Ellen & van Hest, Maikel F.A.M. & Druffel, Thad, 2022. "Techno-economic analysis of roll-to-roll production of perovskite modules using radiation thermal processes," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 307(C).

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