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Blade-Coating of High Crystallinity Cesium-Formamidinium Perovskite Formulations

Jaffrès, Anaël  
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Othman, Mostafa  
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Saenz, Felipe
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July 17, 2024
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Up-scalable coating processes need to be developed to manufacture efficient and stable perovskite-based solar modules. In this work, we combine two Lewis base additives (N,N′-dimethylpropyleneurea and thiourea) to fabricate high-quality Cs0.15FA0.85PbI3 perovskite films by blade-coating on large areas. Selected-area electron diffraction patterns reveal a minimization of stacking faults in the α-FAPbI3 phase for this specific cesium-formamidinium composition in both spin-coated and blade-coated perovskite films, demonstrating its scaling potential. The underlying mechanism of the crystallization process and the specific role of thiourea are characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and in situ optical absorption, showing clear interaction between thiourea and perovskite precursors and halved film-formation activation energy (from 114 to 49 kJ/mol), which contribute to the obtained specific morphology with the formation of large domain sizes on a short time scale. The blade-coated perovskite solar cells demonstrate a maximum efficiency of approximately 16.9% on an aperture area of 1 cm2

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DOI
10.1021/acsami.4c04706
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85197313075

PubMed ID

38949536

Author(s)
Jaffrès, Anaël  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Othman, Mostafa  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Saenz, Felipe

Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA

Hessler-Wyser, Aïcha  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jeangros, Quentin

Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA

Ballif, Christophe  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Wolff, Christian M.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2024-07-17

Published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume

16

Issue

28

Start page

36557

End page

36566

Subjects

blade-coating

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crystallization

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in situ monitoring

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perovskite solar cells

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stacking-faults

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thiourea

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PV-LAB  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

Marie Skłodowska-Curie

945363

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