📋 Tender Overview
Fast Plasma-Assisted Perovskite Crystallization For High Efficiency Lead-Free Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics
Tackling Toxicity For A Brighter Futuremetal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells, Lauded For Their High Efficiency, Confront A Critical Challenge: Their Most Effective Absorbers Contain Toxic Lead. While Tin Halide Perovskites Offer A Safer Alternative, Their Widespread Adoption Is Hindered By Low Efficiency And Stability Issues, Compounded By Difficulties In Large-Scale Manufacturing. In This Context, The Eu-Funded Smartline-Pv Project Aims To Advance Lead-Free Tin Halide Perovskites. Through Innovative Plasma-Assisted Crystallisation, The Project Aims To Enhance Efficiency And Stability, Crucial For Large-Scale Production. Tailored Interlayers And Flexible Device Concepts Further Optimise Performance. Anticipated Efficiencies Of 25 % Will Revolutionise The Photovoltaics Industry, Lowering Energy Consumption And Costs. With A Focus On Eco-Design And Circularity, Smartline-Pv Aims To Boost Europe’S Photovoltaics Sector, Especially In Building-Integrated Applications.
Funded Under
Climate, Energy And Mobility
Total Cost
€ 4 994 686,25
Eu Contribution
€ 4 994 686,25
Coordinated By
Technische Universitaet Graz
Austria
Start Date
1 January 2024
End Date
30 June 2027
Objective
Metal halide perovskite solar cells have moved into the focus of energy materials research through impressive power conversion efficiencies. However, the most efficient perovskite absorbers contain toxic lead. Tin halide perovskites have emerged as a highly promising alternative and efficiencies up to 14.6% have been already reported, but to become a highly efficient thin film technology, further increasing their efficiency and stability, as well as fast and homogeneous large area perovskite crystallization compatible with roll-to-roll processes are still major hurdles. These challenges are tackled within SMARTLINE-PV by the development of a fast, robust and scalable plasma assisted crystallization technology leading to high quality tin perovskite films. The benefits lie in the high speed of the process, the low temperatures involved and in the precise control of perovskite nucleation and growth by a combination of the precursor chemistry and the plasma conditions. Moreover, (i) tailored interlayers will be applied to further improve the solar cell efficiency and stability and (ii) novel device concepts to fabricate flexible tin perovskite solar cell modules with selectable colour will be implemented.
The lead-free thin film PV technology developed in SMARTLINE-PV will achieve efficiencies of 25%, with significant reduction of energy consumption and manufacturing costs compared to other thin film technologies, which typically involve high temperature steps. For the SMARTLINE-PV consortium, these advancements will lead to a plethora of new opportunities to strengthen the European photovoltaics industry in many sectors including the important building-int
