Open-air manufacturing of perovskite solar modules
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Metal halide perovskites have emerged over the last 10 years as a strong candidate for next generation solar energy production with record device efficiencies of >26% competing with state-of-the-art incumbent crystalline silicon devices. The rapid rise in perovskite performance, combined with their solution processability and low-cost fabrication compared to conventional physical and chemical vapor-based deposition methods, demonstrates a pathway towards meeting the global energy demand. However, high performance solution-processed perovskite devices are typically fabricated on areas as small as 0.1 cm2, demonstrating a significant scaling barrier for commercialization and deployment. Additionally, while perovskites enable solution processing of low-cost earth-abundant materials, complementary device layers often rely on low-throughput vacuum-based processes, negating many of the cost benefits promised by perovskite solar energy. Here, an open-air spray deposition platform is proposed as a high-throughput, scalable route for the production of low-cost perovskite solar modules. Rapid Spray Plasma Processing (RSPP) is first presented as a platform for producing robust, high-performing large-area perovskite films in open air at linear processing speeds of 12 m/min. RSPP is paired with indirect liftoff laser scribing to produce perovskite modules with >25 cm2 active areas, optimizing for low-cost laser systems and consistent module performance across a broad range of active areas. The open-air spray deposition platform built around the RSPP technique is extended to the entire perovskite device, demonstrating the commercial benefit of open-air manufacturing with complete technoeconomic analysis translating lab-scale optimizations directly to MW-scale module manufacturing costs and demonstrating a pathway towards the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) target of $0.02/kWh.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2024; ©2024 |
| Publication date | 2024; 2024 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Flick, Austin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Dauskardt, R. H. (Reinhold H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Dauskardt, R. H. (Reinhold H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Thesis advisor | Congreve, Dan |
| Degree committee member | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Degree committee member | Congreve, Dan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Engineering |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Austin Flick. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2024. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fc059cz7103 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2024 by Austin Cristobal Flick
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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