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  • Perovskite microcells fabri...
    Lee, Woongchan; Yoo, Young Jin; Park, Jinhong; Ko, Joo Hwan; Kim, Yeong Jae; Yun, Huiwon; Kim, Dong Hoe; Song, Young Min; Kim, Dae-Hyeong

    Nature communications, 04/2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    Perovskite microcells have a great potential to be applied to diverse types of optoelectronic devices including light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, and solar cells. Although several perovskite fabrication methods have been researched, perovskite microcells without a significant efficiency drop during the patterning and fabrication process could not be developed yet. We herein report the fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite microcells using swelling-induced crack propagation and the application of the microcells to colored solar windows. The key procedure is a swelling-induced lift-off process that leads to patterned perovskite films with high-quality interfaces. Thus, a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.1 % could be achieved with the perovskite microcell, which is nearly same as the PCE of our unpatterned perovskite photovoltaic device (PV). The semi-transparent PV based on microcells exhibited a light utilization efficiency of 4.67 and a color rendering index of 97.5 %. The metal-insulator-metal structure deposited on the semi-transparent PV enabled to fabricate solar windows with vivid colors and high color purity.