Repeatable Perovskite Solar Cells through Fully Automated Spin-Coating and Quenching

Enhancing reproducibility, repeatability, as well as facilitating transferability between laboratories will accelerate the progress in many material domains, wherein perovskite-based optoelectronics are a prime use case. This study presents fully automated perovskite thin film processing using a commercial spin-coating robot in an inert atmosphere. We successfully apply this novel processing method to antisolvent quenching. This process is typically difficult to reproduce and transfer and is now enhanced to exceptional repeatability in comparison to manual processing. Champion perovskite solar cells demonstrate power conversion efficiencies as high as 19.9%, proving the transferability of established manual spin-coating processes to automatic setups. Comparison with human experts reveals that the performance is already on par, while automated processing yields improved homogeneity across the substrate surface. This work demonstrates that fully automated perovskite thin film processing improves repeatability. Such systems bear the potential to become a foundation for autonomous optimization and greatly improve transferability between laboratories.