Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing

Shaik, Shoieb; Zhou, Ziyou; Ouyang, Zhongliang; Han, Rebecca; Li, Dawen

doi:10.3390/en14092656

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Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing

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Shoieb Shaik

^†,

Ziyou Zhou

^†,

Zhongliang Ouyang

^†,

Rebecca Han

and

Dawen Li

^*

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^†

S.S., Z.Z. and Z.O. contributed to this work equally.

Energies 2021, 14(9), 2656; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092656

Submission received: 2 March 2021 / Revised: 23 April 2021 / Accepted: 26 April 2021 / Published: 6 May 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Polymer and Perovskite Solar Cells)

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Perovskite solar cells (PVSC) have drawn increasing attention due to their high photovoltaic performance and low-cost fabrication with solution processability. A variety of methods have been developed to make uniform and dense perovskite thin films, which play a critical role on device performance. Herein, we demonstrate a polymer additive assisted approach with Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers to facilitate the growth of uniform, dense, and ultra-smooth perovskite thin films. Furthermore, a lamp annealing approach has been developed to rapidly anneal perovskite films using an incandescent lamp, resulting in comparable or even better device performance compared to the control hotplate annealing. The facile polymer additive assisted method and the rapid lamp annealing technique offer a clue for the large-scale fabrication of efficient PVSCs.

Keywords: perovskite solar cells; addition of polymer; rapid lamp annealing

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Shaik, S.; Zhou, Z.; Ouyang, Z.; Han, R.; Li, D. Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing. Energies 2021, 14, 2656. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092656

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Shaik S, Zhou Z, Ouyang Z, Han R, Li D. Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing. Energies. 2021; 14(9):2656. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092656

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Shaik, Shoieb, Ziyou Zhou, Zhongliang Ouyang, Rebecca Han, and Dawen Li. 2021. "Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing" Energies 14, no. 9: 2656. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092656

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Shaik, S., Zhou, Z., Ouyang, Z., Han, R., & Li, D. (2021). Polymer Additive Assisted Fabrication of Compact and Ultra-Smooth Perovskite Thin Films with Fast Lamp Annealing. Energies, 14(9), 2656. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092656

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