Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV24)
Publication date: 6th February 2024
Lightweight and flexible plastic-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are seen as strong emerging rivals to the rigid heavy-block photovoltaics composed of crystalline silicon. To boost further the competitiveness of these devices, the scientific community is now looking for compatible, effective and scalable manufacturing methods to attain efficiencies of greater than 20%, while their fabrication using cost-effective and greener materials is also increasingly studied. The present work sheds light on the development of high-efficiency and stable flexible-plastic PSCs under ambient atmospheric conditions through a comprehensive investigation on a series of primary and secondary monohydric alcohols usage as green-antisolvent alternatives. The findings revealed that the plastic substrates have much better manufacturing compatibility (studied in terms of nanomechanical testing) with alcohols compared to the reference case of chlorobenzene antisolvent. Simultaneously, high-quality perovskites and, therefore, photovoltaics are able to be obtained through the concurrent consideration of antisolvent properties (i.e., polarity, density, viscosity, flash point and water solubility) (thorough experimental evidence and interpretations are given to proof the concept, including time-dependent XRD, SEM, UV-VIS, FTIR, miscibility testing, nano-mechanical analysis, J-V curves, IPCE-APCE, EIS, stability assessment under ISOS-D-1 protocol conditions and bending fatigue). To this end, 2-butanol was found to aid in the development of mirror-like, pinhole-free and mechanically resilient ambient-air-processed perovskite structures, boosting the efficiency of scalable carbon-based flexible PSCs to a record of over 20% with decreased hysteresis. Notably, the unencapsulated devices also exhibited remarkable stability under ISOS-D-1 protocol conditions (T85 >1000 h) and bending fatigue (T80 (5-mm-radius) >5000 bending cycles).
Acknowledgment:
This research was carried out in the framework of the project “Development of efficient third generation PV materials and devices to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises and the Greek economy to the green energy production” (TAEDR 0537347), “Greece 2.0 National Recovery and Resilience Plan”, funded by the European Union-NextGenerationEU.
Attribution:
The graphical abstract was designed using resources from www.sketchfab.com
"DOOM eternal praetor suit" (https://skfb.ly/oO6UQ) by DJ_Nugget is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
"Sentinel 1" (https://skfb.ly/oPNYG) by DJ_Nugget is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.