The present disclosure relates to the field of photovoltaic devices, and in particular to a perovskite solar module and a manufacturing method therefor.
Perovskite solar cells are currently a rapidly developing type of solar cells, which have the characteristics of high efficiency, low cost, and simple preparation, etc. In terms of structures, the perovskite solar cells are divided into planar structures and mesoporous structures, which mainly include a transparent electrode, an electron transport layer, a perovskite light-absorbing material, a hole transport layer, a counter electrode, etc. After absorbing light, the perovskite material generates photo-generated electrons and holes, which are transmitted to the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer, respectively, and are connected with an external circuit to form a loop to output electrical energy.
However, the existing perovskite solar cells still need to be improved.
In view of this, the present disclosure aims to provide a perovskite solar module and a preparation method thereof. The perovskite solar module is provided with a barrier layer, which can effectively solve problems such as shunt caused by direct contact between the photoactive layer and the electrode, and significantly improve the performance of the perovskite solar module.
In order to achieve the above objective, the technical solutions of the present disclosure is achieved as follows:
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides a perovskite solar module. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the perovskite solar module includes: a substrate; a transparent conductive oxide layer provided on at least a part of a surface of the substrate; an electron transport layer provided on at least a part of a surface of the transparent conductive oxide layer facing away from the substrate; a photoactive layer provided on at least a part of a surface of the electron transport layer facing away from the transparent conductive oxide layer; a hole transport layer provided on at least a part of a surface of the photoactive layer facing away from the electron transport layer; an electrode provided on at least a part of a surface of the hole transport layer facing away from the photoactive layer, the electrode having a protrusion penetrating through the hole transport layer, the photoactive layer, and the electron transport layer to be connected to the transparent conductive oxide layer; and a barrier layer provided in the photoactive layer and separating the photoactive layer from the protrusion.
Compared with the related art, the perovskite solar module of the above embodiment of the present disclosure has at least the following advantages:
According to the perovskite solar module of the embodiment of the present disclosure, by providing a barrier layer in the photoactive layer, the barrier layer can be used to separate the photoactive layer from the electrode, and prevent photo-generated electrons or holes generated in the photoactive layer from flowing into the metal electrode, thus improving the performance of perovskite solar module. Also, the use of the barrier layer to isolate the photoactive layer from the electrode can also avoid the degradation and damage, etc. of the photoactive layer caused by chemical reactions that may occur during laser or physical scribing. In addition, the barrier layer can be formed simultaneously when the photoactive layer is formed, and the preparation method is simple.
Further, a first scribed region is formed in the transparent conductive oxide layer, and a part of the electron transport layer is provided in the first scribed region; or, a first scribed region is formed in the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer, and a part of the barrier layer is provided in the first scribed region.
Further, the photoactive layer is formed of perovskite, and the barrier layer is formed of at least one of a halide-based material, an oxide-based material, a nitride-based material, and a carbide-based material.
Further, a band gap of the barrier layer is larger than a band gap of the photoactive layer.
Further, a band gap of the barrier layer is greater than or equal to 2.5 eV, and a band gap of the photoactive layer ranges from 1.5 eV to 1.8 eV.
Further, the perovskite solar module further includes: a second scribed region located in the electron transport layer, the photoactive layer, the hole transport layer, and the barrier layer, and the protrusion of the electrode is provided within the second scribed region.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing the above-mentioned perovskite solar module. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes steps of: (1) forming the transparent conductive oxide layer on the substrate, and forming the electron transport layer on the transparent conductive oxide layer after forming a first scribed region in the transparent conductive oxide layer by scribing; (2) forming the barrier layer and the photoactive layer on the electron transport layer; (3) forming the hole transport layer on the barrier layer and the photoactive layer; and (4) providing the electrode on the hole transport layer.
According to the method for manufacturing the perovskite solar module of the embodiment of the present disclosure, after the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer are formed, the material of the barrier layer and the material of the photoactive layer are further applied on the electron transport layer, and by making the material of the barrier layer and/or the material of the photoactive layer undergo selective phase change, the barrier layer and the photoactive layer are obtained. Subsequently, the hole transport layer is formed on the barrier layer and the photoactive layer, and the electrode is provided to obtain the perovskite solar module of the above-mentioned embodiment. Compared with the traditional manufacturing process of the perovskite solar module, this method does not need to increase the process steps too much, and the perovskite solar module of the above-mentioned embodiment can be obtained simply and efficiently by adopting this method.
Further, in the step (1), it is also possible that after the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer are sequentially formed on the substrate, the first scribed region is formed in the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer by scribing.
Further, in the step (2), the barrier layer and the photoactive layer are simultaneously formed on the electron transport layer.
Further, the method further includes, prior to the step (4): forming a second scribed region in the electron transport layer, the hole transport layer, and the barrier layer by scribing, and then providing the electrode on the hole transport layer, the protrusion of the electrode being provided within the second scribed region.
The additional aspects and advantages of the present disclosure will be partly given in the following description, and partly will become apparent from the following description, or be understood through the practice of the present disclosure.
The accompanying drawings are used to provide a further understanding of the present disclosure and constitute a part of the specification, and is used to explain the present disclosure together with the following specific embodiments, but does not constitute a limitation to the present disclosure. In the accompanying drawings:
The embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below. Examples of the embodiments are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which the same or similar reference numerals indicate the same or similar elements or elements with the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary, and are intended to explain the present disclosure, but should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure. Where specific techniques or conditions are not indicated in the examples, the procedures shall be carried out in accordance with the techniques or conditions described in the literature in the field or in accordance with the product specification. The reagents or instruments used without the indication of the manufacturers are all conventional products that can be purchased commercially.
In the description of the present disclosure, it should be understood that the orientation or position relationship indicated by the terms “center”, “longitudinal”, “transverse”, “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, and “outer”, etc. is based on the orientation or position relationship shown in the drawings, and is only for the convenience of describing the present disclosure and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the pointed device or element must have a specific orientation, or be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation of the present disclosure.
In addition, the terms “first” and “second” are only used for descriptive purposes, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of indicated technical features. Therefore, the features defined with “first” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of the present disclosure, “plurality” means at least two, such as two, three, etc., unless otherwise specifically defined.
In the present disclosure, unless otherwise clearly specified and limited, terms such as “install”, “connect”, “connect to”, “fix” and the like should be understood in a broad sense. For example, it may be a fixed connection or a detachable connection or connection as one piece; mechanical connection or electrical connection; direct connection or indirect connection through an intermediate; internal communication of two components or the interaction relationship between two components, unless otherwise clearly limited. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meaning of the above-mentioned terms in the present disclosure can be understood according to specific circumstances.
In the present disclosure, unless expressly stipulated and defined otherwise, the first feature “on” or “under” the second feature may mean that the first feature is in direct contact with the second feature, or the first and second features are in indirect contact through an intermediate. Moreover, the first feature “above” the second feature may mean that the first feature is directly above or obliquely above the second feature, or simply mean that the level of the first feature is higher than that of the second feature. The first feature “below” the second feature may mean that the first feature is directly below or obliquely below the second feature, or simply mean that the level of the first feature is smaller than that of the second feature.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides a perovskite solar module. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to
Hereinafter, the perovskite solar module according to the embodiment of the present disclosure will be further described in detail with reference to
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a manufacturing method of the perovskite solar module, it is possible that the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 is formed on the substrate 100 first, and then the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 is scribed to obtain a first scribed region (Scheme I); and it is also possible that the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 and the electron transport layer 300 are formed on the substrate 100 first, and then the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 and the electron transport layer 300 are scribed to obtain a first scribed region (Scheme II). Therefore, in the above Scheme I, the first scribed region is formed in the transparent conductive oxide layer 200, and then, when the electron transport layer 300 is further formed on the transparent conductive oxide layer 200, a part of the electron transport layer 300 will be formed in the first scribed region, as shown in
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the above-mentioned photoactive layer 400 is a perovskite layer, for example, it can be obtained by forming a perovskite crystal form of CH3NH3PbIx, CH3NH3PbBrx, etc.; the above-mentioned barrier layer 700 is formed of at least one of a halide-based material, an oxide-based material, a nitride-based material, and a carbide-based material. The halide-based material may be, for example, chloride (such as lead chloride), bromide (such as cyanogen bromide), or iodide (such as lead iodide), and the oxide-based material may be, for example, Al2O3, SiO2, and the like. Preferably, the halide-based material uses bromide or iodide, so that the barrier layer 700 formed of bromide or iodide can passivate the edge of the photoactive layer 400 (perovskite layer) to a certain extent, thereby further improving the stability of the photoactive layer 400.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a band gap of the barrier layer 700 is greater than a band gap of the photoactive layer 400. Therefore, the barrier layer 700 can effectively block the photo-generated electrons and holes in the photoactive layer 400 from flowing into the electrode, thereby improving the overall reliability of the solar module.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the band gap of the barrier layer 700 is greater than or equal to 2.5 eV, and the band gap of the photoactive layer 400 ranges from 1.5 eV to 1.8 eV. Thus, the barrier layer 700 has a better blocking effect on the photo-generated electrons and holes generated in the photoactive layer 400.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the perovskite solar module may further include: a second scribed region, which is obtained by scribing the electron transport layer 300, the photoactive layer 400, the hole transport layer 500, and the barrier layer 700, and thus is located in the electron transport layer 300, the photoactive layer 400, the hole transport layer 500 and the barrier layer 700, and the protrusion 610 of the electrode 600 is provided within the second scribed region.
In addition, it should be noted that the perovskite solar module of the present disclosure does not specifically limit the specific types or materials of the substrate, the transparent conductive oxide layer, the electron transport layer, the hole transport layer, and the electrode, which can be obtained by those skilled in the art according to conventional choices. For example, the substrate may be a glass substrate; the transparent conductive oxide layer may be formed of at least one of aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO), boron-doped zinc oxide (BZO), gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO), gallium and aluminum-doped zinc oxide (GAZO), and fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO), tin-doped indium oxide (ITO), tungsten-doped indium oxide (IWO), and titanium-doped indium oxide (ITIO); the electron transport layer may be formed of a fullerene derivative PCBM; the hole transport layer can be formed of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-polystyrene sulfonic acid (PEDOT:PSS); and the electrode may be a metal electrode (such as Ag electrode, Cu electrode, Au electrode, etc.), an oxide electrode, a carbon material electrode or a composite electrode. Since the barrier layer can separate the photoactive layer apart from the electrode, the material of the electrode in the solar module of the present disclosure has a larger selection range.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the perovskite solar module of the present disclosure may further have conventional structures such as encapsulation and backsheet, which will not be repeated here. In order to facilitate the packaging of the perovskite solar module or the setting of the backsheet, the electrode and the hole transport layer may be further scribed to obtain a third scribed region 830, as shown in
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing the perovskite solar module of the above-mentioned embodiment. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method includes steps of: (1) forming the transparent conductive oxide layer on the substrate, and forming the electron transport layer on the transparent conductive oxide layer after forming a first scribed region in the transparent conductive oxide layer by scribing; (2) forming the barrier layer and the photoactive layer on the electron transport layer; (3) forming the hole transport layer on the barrier layer and the photoactive layer; and (4) providing the electrode on the hole transport layer.
According to the method for manufacturing the perovskite solar module of the embodiment of the present disclosure, after the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer are formed, the barrier layer material and the photoactive layer material are further applied on the electron transport layer, and by making the barrier layer material and/or the photoactive layer material undergo selective phase change, the barrier layer and the photoactive layer are obtained. Subsequently, the hole transport layer is formed on the barrier layer and the photoactive layer, and the electrode is provided to obtain the perovskite solar module of the above-mentioned embodiment. Compared with the traditional manufacturing process of the perovskite solar module, this method does not need to increase the process steps too much, and the perovskite solar module of the above-mentioned embodiment can be obtained simply and efficiently by adopting this method.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in the step (1), it is also possible that after the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer are sequentially formed on the substrate, the first scribed region is formed in the transparent conductive oxide layer and the electron transport layer by scribing. Specifically, in the preparation method of the perovskite solar module, either one of the following two scheme is possible: (1) the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 is formed on the substrate 100 first, and then the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 is scribed to obtain the first scribed region 810 (as shown in
The method for manufacturing the perovskite solar module according to the embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to
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It should be noted that the method of forming the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 and the electron transport layer 300 is not particularly limited, and can be selected by those skilled in the art according to actual needs. For example, a conventional transparent conductive oxide layer material and a conventional electron transport layer material may be respectively used to prepare a solution or a slurry, and the transparent conductive oxide layer 200 and the electron transport layer 300 may be formed sequentially by a coating method, or by chemical vapor deposition, etc.
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According to a specific example of the present disclosure, referring to
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Further, conventional processing such as packaging or setting of a backsheet may also be performed on the solar module, which will not be repeated here. In order to facilitate the packaging or the setting of the backsheet of the solar module, the electrode 600 and the hole transport layer 500 may be further scribed to obtain a third scribed region 830, as shown in
In addition, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to
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In addition, the materials for forming the perovskite photoactive layer can also use formamidine iodide (FAI), Cs or Rb-containing MAI, or Cs or Rb-containing FAI instead of MAI, or other halides instead of lead iodide and lead bromide. In the method shown in
According to a specific example of the present disclosure, in the method shown in
In the description of this specification, descriptions with reference to the terms “an embodiment”, “some embodiments”, “examples”, “specific examples”, or “some examples” etc. mean that specific features, structure, materials or characteristics described in conjunction with the embodiment or example are included in at least one embodiment or example of the present disclosure. In this specification, the schematic representations of the above terms do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Moreover, the described specific features, structures, materials or characteristics may be combined in any one or more embodiments or examples in a suitable manner. In addition, those skilled in the art can combine the different embodiments or examples and the features of the different embodiments or examples described in this specification without contradicting each other.
Although the embodiments of the present disclosure have been shown and described above, it can be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are exemplary and should not be construed as limiting the present disclosure. Those of ordinary skill in the art can make changes, modifications, substitutions and modifications to the above-mentioned embodiments within the scope of the present disclosure.
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201811620661.9 | Dec 2018 | CN | national |
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PCT/CN2019/129280 | 12/27/2019 | WO | 00 |