Brand-new production equipment for large-area perovskite solar cells

• National Taiwan University and Taiwanese PV manufacturing equipment supplier E-Sun Precision Industrial Co. have created tools to generate various type of perovskite cells with varying chemical structures. The first trials achieved 14.3% conversion efficiency prices.

The New Energy Center at National Taiwan University and also Taiwanese PV manufacturing devices supplier E-Sun Precision Industrial Co. have actually developed brand-new manufacturing equipment to manufacture p-i-n type perovskite solar cells with large location.

Researchers from both entities said the maker can promote the manufacturing of "affordable" perovskite cells via the MK-20 once-through procedure. The production process, which is based on slot-die coater as well as quick thermal processor (FTP) tech, is completely automated and also can presently handle small-quantity sample production.

" This equipment can continuously perform 4 layers thin-film layer and fast warm treatment in sintering as well as crystallization," stated Bin-Juine Huang, a teacher at the New Energy Center.

The largest area that can be generated with the devices is 80 cm × 80 centimeters. "For a typical p-i-n kind perovskite cell, the trial run on this device achieves 14.3% power conversion effectiveness which has to do with 77% of small cell produced by spin finishing as well as warmer annealing," the study team clarified.

The new maker is ready for commercialization. It was created under a research job sustained by the Taiwanese government to produce huge perovskite solar PV components with dimensions of 1.6 m x 1m, using perovskite solar cells made from MK-20.

" MK-20 can just makes slim films of perovskite solar cells," Huang stated. "It still needs the back electrode manufacture as well as cell modularization in order to make a solar PV component for sensible power generation."

The research study team is additionally presently establishing an inexpensive lamination product packaging procedure for large PV module manufacturing.

"Combining the affordable perovskite cell manufacturing as well as the low-priced component packaging technologies, perovskite solar cell will certainly be moved better to the market side in the near future," Huang added.