FACs‐based (FA+, formamidinium and Cs+, cesium) perovskite solar cells have gained great attention due to their remarkable light and thermal stabilities toward practical application of perovskite modules. However, the moisture instability and difficulty in scalable fabrication are still the main obstacles blocking their photovoltaic applications in current status. Here, the employment of novel interaction between crown ether with metal cations is introduced to tailor the uniform growth and inhibit moisture invasion during the crystallization of α‐phase FACsPbI3, yielding the successful synthesis of high‐quality perovskite films in a large scale. Consequently, perovskite solar cells (PSC) modules in the total area of 4 × 4 and 10 × 10 cm2 are readily fabricated with respective champion efficiencies of 16.69% and 13.84% and excellent stability over 1000 h. This facile scaling‐up strategy assisted by crown ether has shown great promise for pursuing efficient and highly stable large‐area PSC modules.
The incorporation of a Br-containing tetrabutylammonium salt into perovskite precursors demonstrates superior advantages in both crystallization and large-area uniformity control during the scalable blade-coating of perovskite films.
Perovskite solar cells are the fastest‐growing photovoltaic technology in recent years. However, together with the stability, the low‐cost and high‐quality preparation of large‐area modules still limits their commercialization process. Herein, a scalable and high‐performance ZnOSnO2 cascade double‐layer electron transport layer (ETL) for efficient and stable perovskite modules is reported. The cascaded ETL is fabricated using a simple spray pyrolysis coating combined with the blade coating process, which not only effectively improves the interface stability by avoiding the protonation of ZnO to maintain its high electron mobility, but also provides a much smoother surface for the crystallization of perovskites. In addition, the well‐matched conduction band level between SnO2 and perovskites ensures the improvement of open‐circuit voltage. Subsequently, combined with the blade‐coated perovskite layer and hole transport layer film, large‐area planar perovskite modules are successfully prepared. These high‐quality films enable the perovskite solar modules to achieve impressive efficiencies of 17.8% in the module size 6 × 6 cm2 and 16.6% in a size of 10 × 10 cm2. The obtained module also shows excellent reproducibility and stability. The high‐performance ETL and the related deposition method developed in this work are promising for applications in the industrial scalable perovskite modules’ fabrication.
Due to its excellent chemical and temperature resistances, short glass fiber reinforced poly (ether ether ketone) composite (SGF/PEEK) is a promising material for application in automotive lightweight. Processing conditions, such as cooling rate, need to be well controlled to obtain the optimal crystallite morphology of PEEK composites. Thus, in this paper, the non-isothermal crystallization kinetics and melting behavior of SGF/PEEK were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at different cooling rates, and the crystallite sizes were evaluated by the X-ray diffraction technique (XRD). Crystallization kinetics models and effective activation energies were evaluated to determine the crystallization parameters of the composites. The results suggest that a lower cooling rate enlarges the size of crystallites and enhances the uniformity of size distribution. The addition of glass fibers improves the nucleation rate owing to heterogeneous nucleation while decreasing the growth rate due to retarded movement of the polymer chain. The combined Avrami-Ozawa equation was shown to describe accurately the non-isothermal crystallization. The absolute value of the crystallization activation energy for SGF/PEEK is lower than that of pure PEEK.
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