The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

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 Dehghanimadvar; Lei Shi; Anita W Y Ho-Baillie; Renate Egan; Anthony S R Chesman; Mei Gao; Jacek J Jasieniak; Tawfique Hasan; Doojin Vak

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46016-1

The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 12;15(1):1656. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46016-1.

Authors

Hasitha C Weerasinghe^#¹, Nasiruddin Macadam^#², Jueng-Eun Kim^#^{1

3}, Luke J Sutherland^{1

3}, Dechan Angmo¹, Leonard W T Ng^{1

2

4}, Andrew D Scully¹, Fiona Glenn¹, Regine Chantler¹, Nathan L Chang⁵, Mohammad Dehghanimadvar⁵, Lei Shi^{5

6}, Anita W Y Ho-Baillie^{5

7}, Renate Egan⁵, Anthony S R Chesman¹, Mei Gao¹, Jacek J Jasieniak⁸, Tawfique Hasan⁹, Doojin Vak¹⁰

Affiliations

¹ Flexible Electronics Laboratory, CSIRO Manufacturing, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia.
² Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK.
³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
⁴ School of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 50 Nanyang Ave, Block N4.1, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
⁵ School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
⁶ Foshan Xianhu Laboratory of the Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory, Foshan, China.
⁷ Sydney Nano and School of Physics, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
⁸ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia. jacek.jasieniak@monash.edu.
⁹ Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK. th270@cam.ac.uk.
¹⁰ Flexible Electronics Laboratory, CSIRO Manufacturing, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia. doojin.vak@csiro.au.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

The rapid development of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells has resulted in laboratory-scale devices having power conversion efficiencies that are competitive with commercialised technologies. However, hybrid perovskite solar cells are yet to make an impact beyond the research community, with translation to large-area devices fabricated by industry-relevant manufacturing methods remaining a critical challenge. Here we report the first demonstration of hybrid perovskite solar cell modules, comprising serially-interconnected cells, produced entirely using industrial roll-to-roll printing tools under ambient room conditions. As part of this development, costly vacuum-deposited metal electrodes are replaced with printed carbon electrodes. A high-throughput experiment involving the analysis of batches of 1600 cells produced using 20 parameter combinations enabled rapid optimisation over a large parameter space. The optimised roll-to-roll fabricated hybrid perovskite solar cells show power conversion efficiencies of up to 15.5% for individual small-area cells and 11.0% for serially-interconnected cells in large-area modules. Based on the devices produced in this work, a cost of ~0.7 USD W^-1 is predicted for a production rate of 1,000,000 m² per year in Australia, with potential for further significant cost reductions.

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