Slot-die Fabrication of Solution-processed Kesterite Solar Cells for Product Integrated Photovoltaics
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Xu, Xinya; Naylor, Matthew C; Jones, Michael; Ford, Bethan; Campbell, Stephen; Qu, Yongtao; Barrioz, Vincent; Zoppi, Guillaume; Beattie, Neil S
- Source
- 2022 IEEE 49th Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC) Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2022 IEEE 49th. :1311-1311 Jun, 2022
- Subject
- Aerospace
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Photovoltaic systems
Costs
Surface treatment
Photovoltaic cells
Performance evaluation
Nanoscale devices
Ink
- Language
Traditional photovoltaics (PV) has made excellent progress over the last decade with decreasing installation costs and a levelised cost of electricity that is competitve with fossil fuel based sources of electricity. This has been achieved using economies of scale manufacturing at a relatively small number of mega-factories that are mostly based in a single geographical region. One consequence of this approach to PV manufacturing is that PV modules are highly standardised and the ubiquitous and low-cost deployment of PV on any surface is still not a commercial reality. There is therefore clear scope to perform the manufacturing research that enables this goal. In this work, slot-die deposition of an inorganic nanoparticle ink is used to create proof-of-concept photovoltaic devices in any geometry and pattern using a low-cost masking technique. The results are discussed in the context of a new design-led approach to photovoltaics manufacturing that has the potential to provide complementary new global electricity capacity for distributed applications in the built-environment.