Substantial improvement of Perovskite Solar Cell performance using post-production surface annealing.

玛丽女王大学伦敦（QMUL）开发了一种技术，该技术有可能显著提高下一代串联和柔性钙钛矿太阳能电池（PSC）的性能，这些电池正在由世界各地的许多公司进行商业开发。这项新技术将使每个太阳能电池能够将更多的太阳能转化为有用的电力。在气候变化成为许多人心中最重要的问题，从化石燃料向可再生能源过渡对实现我们的气候目标至关重要的时候，改善太阳能收集是一个关键的技术目标。特别是当这些改进可以作为“附加”应用于现有的太阳能电池制造工厂和工艺时，从而降低采用成本。QMUL技术的好处已经在实验室规模上得到了证明，然而，大规模采用该技术的下一阶段是在与当前制造工艺相关的规模上进行演示。该提案旨在开发和建造一个可用于现场演示该技术有效性的放大原型，从而将原始研究转化为可行的商业机会并产生初始收入。AeroSolar Ltd是QMUL的分拆公司，专注于全球柔性和刚性PSC市场的技术商业化。然而，该技术在其他高价值市场中也有应用，例如基于类似制造工艺的显示器。

Queen Mary University London (QMUL) have developed a technology that has the potential to improve significantly the performance of the next generation of tandem and flexible perovskite solar cells (PSC) that are under commercial development by a number of companies across the world. The new technology will enable each solar cell to convert more of the sun's solar energy into useful electricity.At a time when climate change is uppermost in the minds of many and the transition from fossil fuels to renewables is critical to achieving our climate goals, improving solar power collection is a key technological objective. In particular when the improvements can be applied as an "add-on" to existing solar cell manufacturing plant and processes, thereby reducing costs of adoption.The benefits of the QMUL technology have been demonstrated at laboratory-scale, however, the next stage to wide-scale adoption of the technology is demonstration at scales relevant to current manufacturing processes. This proposal aims to develop and build a scaled-up prototype that can be used demonstrate the effectiveness of the technology in-situ and thus translate the original research into a viable commercial opportunity and generate initial revenues.AeroSolar Ltd is a spin-out from QMUL and is focused on the commercialisation of the technology for the worldwide flexible and rigid PSC markets. However, the technology has applications in additional high value markets such as Displays which are based on similar manufacturing processes.