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Res. Rev. J Mat. Sci. 2017
ISSN: 2321-6212
Advanced Materials 2017
September 07-08, 2017
September 07-08, 2017 | Edinburgh, Scotland
Advanced materials & Processing
11
th
International Conference on
Third generation solar cells from laboratory to factory; Developing a scale-up route for perovskite solar cells to
turn ‘Buildings into Power Stations’
David Worsley and Trystan Watson
Hubei University, China
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hilst the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells continues to increase, technology developments are also
progressing in the area of printing and processing in order to realise large scale manufacture. Possible methods for both
depositing the layer stack and its subsequent heating are numerous; to deliver a working and scalable device stack can require a hybrid
approach where multiple techniques are employed. This paper introduces a series of technology developments required to enable the
continuous fabrication of perovskite solar cells at commercial scale. These include (i) achieving appropriate crystallisation dynamics
of the perovskite layer by tuning the printing process, substrate temperature and post processing and (ii) addressing the bottlenecks in
manufacture such as reducing annealing times to seconds instead of hours to ensure compatibility with a continuous manufacturing
environment and (iii) Choosing the right substrate, glass, metal or plastic that is suitable for the appropriate application A layer by
layer approach to coating deposition will be presented including the mechanism and process parameters required to successfully
deposit the entire device stack via screen printing, slot die coating or a hybrid of both on glass and metal substrates. The application
of building integrated PV to novel steel framed buildings will be used as an example of where printed PV can potentially transform
the built environment into a net positive energy producer.
d.a.worsley@swansea.ac.ukRes. Rev. J Mat. Sci. 2017, 5:5
DOI: 10.4172/2321-6212-C1-006