Advances in Materials and Process for Sustainable Perovskite Solar Cells

All solid-state solar cells based on organometal trihalide perovskite absorbers have already achieved distinguished power conversion efficiency (PCE) to 26.1% and further improvements are expected up to 27%. Now, the research on perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has been moving toward commercialization. To facilitate commercialization of these great solar cells, some technical issues such as long-term stability, large scale fabrication process, Pb-related hazardous materials, and environmentally-burdened toxic solvent-based process need to be solved. <br/>This talk is dealing with our recent efforts to facilitate commercialization of perovskite solar cells. For examples, we introduce a recycling technology of perovskite solar cells, which covers the regeneration process of Pb contained perovskite layer as well as recycling process of Au electrodes and transparent conducting oxide glass. Also, novel strategies for recycling toxic solvents such as DFM, used in fabricating PSCs are introduced, which is critical to realize close loop recycling process of PSCs. Finally, recent studies for achieving high efficiency PSC using ecofriendly solvent are demonstrated.