High-speed Solution Printing and Photonic Curing of Transparent Electrodes on Plastics

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This project will use innovative materials design and a novel annealing method "photonic curing" to facilitate high-throughput, low-cost manufacturing of transparent electrodes on plastic substrates enabling cost-competitive perovskite solar cells with 18% power conversion efficiency. The goal is to produce a transparent conducting layer with better performance and lower cost than the best vacuum-deposited indium tin oxide, which is a transparent conductor used in photovoltaics, on polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a common plastic used to make items like water bottles. The project team will perform lab-scale validation, sheet-scale upscaling, and roll-to-roll demonstration of manufacturability.

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