Winarto, H.; Sutter, J.; Tockhorn, P.; Skorjanc, V.; Patil, P.; Berwig, S.; Zimmermann, L.; Martínez-Denegri, G.; Albrecht, S.; Becker, C.: Periodic Inverted Micropyramids for Optically Optimized Fully Textured Solution-Processed Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL 9 (2025), p. e202500613/1-10
10.1002/solr.202500613
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Abstract:
Optical performance of perovskite-based solar cells can be enhanced by utilizing fully textured interfaces. However, solution processing of perovskite films on textured surfaces is a nonstraightforward and challenging process, particularly if optically most efficient micrometer-sized textures are used. In this work, we present fully textured solution-processed perovskite solar cells on periodic inverted micropyramids. The textures have a period of 4 μm with varying pyramid depths and are fabricated by wet-chemical etching of silicon with subsequent replication on glass substrates using nanoimprint lithography. Inverted pyramids are shown to enable low reflectance similar to random micropyramids on silicon. Additionally, they are able to confine perovskite precursor solution within its structure during spin coating, resulting in a conformal, fully textured perovskite film. We demonstrate that the resulting fully textured single-junction perovskite solar cells feature a reduced reflection loss of up to 1.2 mA/cm2 in short-circuit current density. Moreover, we observe that the amount of lead iodide in the perovskite precursor solution crucially impacts growth and nonradiative recombination losses of the fully textured perovskite solar cells on inverted micropyramids. Finally, we prove the versatility of our approach by also demonstrating conformal coating with slot-die coating, which is a scalable process considered for industrial application.