(Invited) Scalable Roll-to-Roll and Sheet-to-Sheet Processing for Perovskite Photovoltaics

Wednesday, 16 October 2019: 10:00
Room 224 (The Hilton Atlanta)
M. van Hest (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Metal halide perovskites have emerged as a highly promising solar cell technology with high light to electric power conversion efficiency and low processing cost due to their solution processability. However, to make perovskite solar cells commercially viable, particularly to compete with or build upon the traditional silicon dominated photovoltaic market, substantial progress is needed in improving their process techniques and scalability. Fabricating perovskite devices and modules in a roll-to-roll process on flexible substrates will enable high throughput manufacturing, and it will also allow the application space to be extended beyond what is available to rigid geometries. We developed chemistries, contact and absorber layers, that can be deposited in a roll-to-roll fashion using scalable slot-die coating. Progress of scaling up perovskites to larger area, sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll, on flexible substrates will be reported. Insight will be given in module performance and the stability of such modules.