Fabricating thin-film photovoltaic devices using ultra-sonic spray-coating (Presentation Recording)

David G. Lidzey

doi:10.1117/12.2187076

5 October 2015 Fabricating thin-film photovoltaic devices using ultra-sonic spray-coating (Presentation Recording)

David G. Lidzey

Proceedings Volume 9567, Organic Photovoltaics XVI; 956707 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187076
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The scale-up of thin-film electronic devices requires a manufacture tool set that is capable of fabricating thin films at high speed over large areas. One such technique capable of such a task is ultra-sonic spray coating. Here, a target solution is fed onto a vibrating tip that breaks the solution up into very fine droplets, with such droplets being carried to a surface by a gas stream. Such ultra-sonic coating processes are already widely used in Electronics, Medical and Displays industries to create films having excellent smoothness and homogeneity. In this talk, I describe the use of ultra-sonic spray-coating to deposit a range of materials for thin-film optoelectronics. As our spray-coating system operates in air, it was first necessary to explore the relative sensitivity of various conjugated polymer / fullerene blends to an air-based process route. It is found that carbazole based co-polymers are particularly stable, and can be processed in air (by spin-coating) into organic photovoltaic devices (OPV) without any apparent loss in device efficiency. I then show that spray-coating can be used to deposit a range of semiconductor materials into smooth, thin-films, including PEDOT:PSS, MoOx (from a precursor) and a series of polymer:fullerene blends. Using such a technique, we are able to scale up an array of devices having an area of 7 cm2, and using a PBDTTT-EFT:PC70BM blend, obtain OPVs having a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 8.7%. I then discuss spray-coating as a method to fabricate photovoltaic devices based on CH3NH3PbI(3-x)Clx perovskite films. Here, by optimization of deposition parameters, devices are created having a PCE of 11.1%.

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David G. Lidzey "Fabricating thin-film photovoltaic devices using ultra-sonic spray-coating (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9567, Organic Photovoltaics XVI, 956707 (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187076

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