Control of Crystal Growth toward Scalable Fabrication of Perovskite Solar Cells

• Published in: Advanced functional materials Vol. 29; no. 47
• Main Authors: Lee, Jin‐Wook, Lee, Do‐Kyoung, Jeong, Dong‐Nyuk, Park, Nam‐Gyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2019
• Subjects: Blade coating; Coating; Commercialization; Crystal growth; Crystallization; Energy conversion efficiency; large areas; Materials science; Modules; Perovskites; Photovoltaic cells; Solar cells; Thin films
• ISSN: 1616-301X; 1616-3028
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201807047

With the impressive record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells exceeding 23%, research focus now shifts onto issues closely related to commercialization. One of the critical hurdles is to minimize the cell‐to‐module PCE loss while the device is being developed on a large scale. Since a solution‐based spin‐coating process is limited to scalability, establishment of a scalable deposition process of perovskite layers is a prerequisite for large‐area perovskite solar modules. Herein, this paper reports on the recent progress of large‐area perovskite solar cells. A deeper understanding of the crystallization of perovskite films is indeed essential for large‐area perovskite film formation. Various large‐area coating methods are proposed including blade, slot‐die, evaporation, and post‐treatment, where blade‐coating and gas post‐treatment have so far demonstrated better PCEs for an area larger than 10 cm2. However, PCE loss rate is estimated to be 1.4 × 10−2% cm−2, which is 82 and 3.5 times higher than crystalline Si (1.7 × 10−4% cm−2) and thin film technologies (≈4 × 10−3% cm−2) respectively. Therefore, minimizing PCE loss upon scaling‐up is expected to lead to PCE over 20% in case of cell efficiency of >23%. The latest progress and issues toward scalable fabrication of perovskite solar cells are reviewed in an attempt to provide insights into the development of rational fabrication methods for large‐area perovskite films and solar modules.