Improvement of the Dynamic Spin-Washing Effect with an Optimized Process of a Perovskite Solar Cell in Ambient Air by the Kriging Method

Lead halide perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) exhibit high efficiencies and are based on abundant materials; further, they can be deposited on flexible substrates using easy fabrication processes. Here, we report a way to fabricate a 1 cm² perovskite solar cell outside a glovebox (humidity below 40%) via a modified two-step method with a FTO/TiO₂/perovskite/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au structure. This modified two-step method is based on the “dynamic spin-washing method”. After dipping the perovskite films into a methylammonium iodide solution, they were washed with isopropyl alcohol (IPA) at different spin speeds. The surface morphology and crystallinity of the perovskite layer were drastically improved using this method. We also investigated and conducted an experiment to explain the effect of the dynamic spin-washing on the surface morphology and crystallinity. Lastly, we optimized the thickness of the TiO₂ layer and observed a maximum power conversion efficiency of 13.75% and 11.78% for small- and large-area devices, respectively

Droplet Motion Control on Dynamically Hydrophobic Patterned Surfaces as Multifunctional Liquid Manipulators

In this letter, we introduce a novel liquid manipulation strategy to design dynamically hydrophobic and statically hydrophobic/hydrophilic patterned surfaces using an “omniphobicity”-based technique. The surfaces guide the sliding direction of a droplet in the presence of a statically hydrophilic area where the droplet does not stick on the transport path significantly enhancing the fluidic system transport efficiency. The concept of dynamically hydrophobic and statically hydrophobic/hydrophilic patterned surfaces in conjunction with omniphobic patterning techniques having surface multifunctionality, we believe, has potential not only for fluidic applications but also for future material engineering development