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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are in focus of the solar cell development research for the last few years due to their high efficiency, cost-effective fabrication, and band gap tunability. Perovskite solar cell efficiency sharply increased from its initial reported efficiency of 3.8% in 2009 to 22.1% in 2016. This makes PSCs as the technology with the fastest growth rate in terms of the efficiency. Different device architectures have also been developed in an attempt to improve the PSC efficiency. At laboratory scale, a spin-coating process is employed to deposit different layers of PSCs. Though spin-coating process helps to achieve high efficiency, for large-scale production viability, researchers are developing different deposition techniques. A broad range of manufacturing techniques for perovskite-based solar cells have been tested and reported comprising drop casting, spray coating, ultrasonic spray coating, slot die coating, electrodeposition, CVD, thermal vapor deposition, vacuum deposition, screen printing, ink-jet printing, etc., with different device architectures. This chapter summarizes different PSC structures along with the corresponding manufacturing techniques.
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Kajal, P., Ghosh, K., Powar, S. (2018). Manufacturing Techniques of Perovskite Solar Cells. In: Tyagi, H., Agarwal, A., Chakraborty, P., Powar, S. (eds) Applications of Solar Energy. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7206-2_16
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