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Photovoltaic Performance Improvement in Vacuum-Assisted Meniscus Printed Triple-Cation Mixed-Halide Perovskite Films by Surfactant Engineering Ershad Parvazian, Amir Abdollah-zadeh, Mehdi Dehghani, and Nima Taghavinia ACS Appl. Energy Mater., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b00707 • Publication Date (Web): 05 Aug 2019 Downloaded from pubs.acs.org on August 6, 2019
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Photovoltaic Performance Improvement in Vacuum-Assisted Meniscus Printed Triple-Cation Mixed-Halide Perovskite Films by Surfactant Engineering Ershad Parvazian†, Amir Abdollah-zadeh†,* , Mehdi Dehghani‡ and Nima Taghavinia‡ † Department
of Materials Eng., Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-143, Tehran, Iran.
‡ Department
of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, 11155-9161, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: meniscus printing, surfactant, perovskite, vacuum process, solar cell,
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ABSTRACT: Scalable coating methods have recently emerged as practical alternative deposition
techniques to the conventional spin-coating, in spite of their lower yielding power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). The most important barrier acting against the use of scalable deposition methods to get a highly absorbing (>95%) film with controlled morphology in the high crystallinity of perovskite particles is the impossibility of anti-solvent dripping during the deposition. Here, we demonstrate the positive role of both surfactant-engineering and the vacuum-annealing ( 1 cm2. physica status solidi (a) 2018, 215 (21), 1800419. (30) Rong, Y.; Venkatesan, S.; Guo, R.; Wang, Y.; Bao, J.; Li, W.; Fan, Z.; Yao, Y. Critical kinetic control of non-stoichiometric intermediate phase transformation for efficient perovskite solar cells. Nanoscale 2016, 8 (26), 12892-12899.
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