Long term stability of air processed inkjet infiltrated carbon-based printed perovskite solar cells under intense ultra-violet light soaking

Syed Ghufran Hashmi; Armi Tiihonen; David Martineau; Merve Ozkan; Paola Vivo; Kimmo Kaunisto; Ulla Vainio; Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin; Michael Grätzel

doi:10.1039/C6TA10605F

Long term stability of air processed inkjet infiltrated carbon-based printed perovskite solar cells under intense ultra-violet light soaking

Syed Ghufran Hashmi^*
, Armi Tiihonen
, David Martineau
, Merve Ozkan
, Paola Vivo
, Kimmo Kaunisto
, Ulla Vainio
, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin
, Michael Grätzel

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The long term stability of air processed inkjet infiltrated carbon based perovskite solar cells (CPSCs) is investigated under intense ultra-violet light soaking equivalent to 1.5 Sun UV light illumination. Two batches of the fabricated CPSCs were exposed systematically i.e. first without implementing any protective coating and then epoxying the CPSCs through a low cost commonly available epoxy which was applied to serve as a barrier against moisture and humidity intrusion. The CPSCs with no protective layer against moisture and humidity exhibited impressive preliminary stability for hundreds of hours during their exposure to intense UV light and provided great motivation to test the CPSCs further with more optimization. As a result, the CPSCs having commonly available epoxy as a protective barrier exhibited remarkable durability and showed no performance degradation for a period of 1002 hours under intense and continuous 1.5 Sun equivalent UV light illumination proving that the technology is clearly not inherently unstable and that future developments might lead to market breakthroughs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4797-4802
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry A: Materials for Energy and Sustainability
Volume	5
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA10605F
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This work was financed through grant number 287641. Ghufran Hashmi gratefully acknowledges the Academy of Finland for the post-doctoral research fellowship and also expresses special thanks to Solaronix for hosting his research mobility for the project “Cutting-Edge Third Generation Advanced Photovoltaic Devices”. A. T. and P. V. acknowledge the Academy of Finland (projects SOLID, 271081 and Hybrid Nano, 268672, respectively). M. G. thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for financial support. M. O. acknowledges the PhD scholarship SELECT+ (Environomical pathways for sustainable energy services). The provision of facilities and technical support by Aalto University at OtaNano-Nanomicroscopy Center (Aalto-NMC) is also acknowledged.

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Hashmi, S. G., Tiihonen, A., Martineau, D., Ozkan, M., Vivo, P., Kaunisto, K., Vainio, U., Zakeeruddin, S. M., & Grätzel, M. (2017). Long term stability of air processed inkjet infiltrated carbon-based printed perovskite solar cells under intense ultra-violet light soaking. Journal of Materials Chemistry A: Materials for Energy and Sustainability, 5(10), 4797-4802. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA10605F

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Long term stability of air processed inkjet infiltrated carbon-based printed perovskite solar cells under intense ultra-violet light soaking. / Hashmi, Syed Ghufran; Tiihonen, Armi; Martineau, David et al.
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