Project description
Developing flexible, carbon electrode-based perovskite solar cells
Solar cell technology has played a pivotal role in addressing climate change and achieving the goals outlined in the Green Deal. Perovskite solar cells have emerged as a vital innovation, offering a much-needed boost in efficiency and durability. The EU-funded PEARL project aims to take solar cell technology to the next level by creating flexible perovskite solar cells with carbon electrodes. It will employ scalable and environmentally friendly methods to process the resulting solar cells, enhancing their efficiency and durability while also significantly reducing both their cost and emissions. To achieve these objectives, the project will primarily focus on developing essential planar, conventional n-i-p, and n-i-c device architectures that incorporate low-temperature carbon pastes for the top electrodes.
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Several advantages arise from the incorporation of carbon electrode in the perovskite solar cell (PSC) architecture such as reduced material cost, improved device stability and simplified device fabrication process as well as lower emissions. Thus, the primary objective of PEARL is to realize flexible perovskite solar cells processed with industrially viable, scalable and environmentally sound methods, showing long term operational stability surpassing the IEC standards, efficiency of > 25%, lowered production costs below 0.3 EUR/Wp and minimal emissions < 0.01 kg CO2eq/kWh. To reach these objectives, PEARL is focusing on the development of planar, conventional n-i-p, and further n-i-c, device architectures utilizing low-temperature carbon pastes as the top electrodes aiming to the emerging markets of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), vehicle integrated photovoltaics (VIPV) and internet of things (IoT).
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
02150 Espoo
Finland