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    Effect of Marangoni Convection on the Perovskite Thin Liquid Film Deposition

    Year: 2021

    Journal: Langmuir, Volume 37, MAR 2, page 2596–2606

    Authors: Ahmadian-Yazdi, Mohammad-Reza; Eslamian, Morteza

    Organizations: Shanghai Municipal Education Commission via the Oriental Scholar fund; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

    Motivated by recent advances in the development of thin-film perovskite solar cells, the evaporation and deposition of a perovskite thin liquid film on a hydrophilic substrate, also in some cases subjected to ultrasonic vibrations, are studied in this paper. In practice, in the literature, the complexity of the underlying phenomenon has led to the study of a thick (macroscale) liquid film in the absence of solidification. Here, we investigate evaporation mechanics of a thin (microscale) liquid film of perovskite solution. We demonstrate flouw fields within the film and study the reason behind the formation of such flow patterns within a thin liquid film and attribute such flows to surface-tension-induced Marangoni flows and rule out the possibility of the presence of buoyancy-induced Rayleigh-Benard convection. We show that perovskite deposition starts at the film contact lines and propagates toward the film center, creating two regions of the perovskite film with distinct characteristics. Our thermography results (temperature mapping) of the film surface show agreement between the temperature map and the flow patterns on the film surface. Moreover, we show that imposing ultrasonic vibration on an evaporating liquid film results in a more uniformly distributed flow pattern across the film due to micromixing enhancement achieved by ultrasonic vibrations.
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