Perovskite materials

Sunic System has announced that it will develop deposition equipment for perovskite-based displays, expanding its perovskite equipment business from solar cells into display applications. The company announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SND Display for the commercialization of next-generation perovskite displays.

The partnership will focus on deposition technologies needed to apply perovskite materials to existing display manufacturing processes. The two companies plan to jointly develop deposition processes and equipment structures optimized for the material characteristics, as well as deposition precursor materials. The collaboration also includes joint technology testing, prototype verification, equipment and process cooperation for mass production, and research aimed at improving deposition uniformity and fine-patterning performance.

A Kookmin University team has been selected for a government-backed nanomaterials technology development program focused on next-generation display materials. The project, supported by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation, brings together a multidisciplinary team to advance metal-halide color conversion materials.

The initiative centers on developing ultrathin perovskite-based color conversion layers for AR/VR and metaverse displays. The team will leverage AI-driven inverse design, combined with a closed-loop high-throughput screening platform, to accelerate materials discovery and optimization.

Tokyo Chemical Industry (TCI), a global supplier of laboratory chemicals and specialty materials, is offering BrNH3-4PACz materials, an SAM-forming agent, that can be used as a replacement for PEDOT/PSS in tandem perovskite solar cells.

TCI explains that in a tandem perovskite solar cell architecture, a wide-bandgap (WBG) Pb-PSC (the top cell) is placed on top of a narrow-bandgap (NBG) Pb/Sn-PSC (the bottom cell). In NBG-type PSCs, the PEDOT/PSS (HTL) material has a drawback in that it oxidizes Sn2+ Therefore, in the fabrication of PSCs containing Sn (including NBG-type PSCs), it is considered desirable to replace PEDOT/PSS with a self-assembled monolayer (SAM)-forming agent. This has been shown in several research papers, including this 2025 one.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Brown University have developed a microfluidic self-driving laboratory, termed PoLARIS (perovskite laboratory for autonomous reaction inference and synthesis), capable of rapidly optimizing and analyzing the synthesis of complex, multi-element perovskite nanocrystals. The platform addresses a key challenge in materials discovery: efficiently navigating the vast, high-dimensional parameter space associated with compositionally complex systems.

Self-driving laboratories combine automated experimentation with machine-learning-guided decision-making, but their application to materials with multiple coupled reaction pathways has remained limited. In this work, the researchers demonstrate that PoLARIS can autonomously synthesize and optimize metal halide double perovskite nanoplatelets containing up to six distinct elements, using a continuous-flow heat-up reaction.

Researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Wenzhou Institute of Technology (WIT), University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, North China Electric Power University, Zhejiang University, Peking University and the University of Oxford have developed an advanced AI-robotics framework that redefines how perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are synthesized, fabricated, and analyzed. 

The study introduces a domain-specific recipe language model (RLM) integrated with 11 interconnected robotic boxes to achieve fully enclosed, automated, and feedback-driven experimentation for PSC research. At the heart of this system lies a seven-layer artificial intelligence (AI) architecture encompassing learning, generating, RecipeQA, fine-tuning, reasoning, evaluation, and optimization. This structure allows both numerical and semantic recipes - formulas and parameters derived from over 60,000 PSC-related studies - to be encoded into machine-readable formats, optimized by the language model, and translated into robotic instructions. Each robotic box contributes to a closed-loop workflow that connects recipe recommendation, fabrication, characterization, and semantic mechanistic analysis.

Researchers from Rice University, Northwestern University, City University of New York, University of Rennes (CNRS), University of Lille (CNRS) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed a new family of FA-based two-dimensional metal halide perovskites that come very close to a “perfect” crystal at room temperature. 

These hybrid (organic–inorganic) semiconductors are engineered to achieve near-maximal crystallographic symmetry, adopting a tetragonal P4/mmm space group without in-plane or out-of-plane octahedral distortions. In contrast to most 2D perovskites, whose softer lattices tend to distort and lower symmetry, the new materials maintain a highly ordered framework inspired by three-dimensional cubic (α-phase) FAPbI₃ (FA = formamidinium).

Tokyo Chemical Industry (TCI), a global supplier of laboratory chemicals and specialty materials, is offering BPFz zinc compounds, that enhances the efficiency of perovskite solar panels

Recent research at Nankai University, in Tianjin has proven the effect of BPFz on perovskite films and solar panels. The researchers found that after surface treatment with BPFz, the efficiency of inverted IPSCs increases from 18.18 to 20.22%, and VOC increases from 1.169 to 1.231 V, with excellent moisture and thermal stability.

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, Mississippi State University, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic and the University of South Carolina recently developed new hybrid materials that challenge conventional thinking about how light-emitting compounds work and could advance the field of fast radiation detection. 

The research presents a novel approach to designing layered perovskite materials that combine the best of both organic and inorganic components.

Sofab Inks has shared details of its progress over the past year, highlighting technical milestones and commercial validation across its perovskite-based solar materials.

In 2025, the company achieved a record efficiency of 22.2% on a 30 cm × 30 cm fullerene-free PIN perovskite solar module, produced in collaboration with Alpha Precision Systems Inc using Sofab’s Tinfab electron transport layer. This result demonstrates the potential for extending laboratory-scale performance to production-scale modules.

Australian advanced materials company Lava Blue has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with solar technology developer HaloCell Energy to establish a domestic supply chain for high-purity perovskite precursor materials. The partnership aims to address cost and availability challenges that have constrained the commercial deployment of next-generation PV technologies.

The non-binding agreement positions Lava Blue to supply specialty chemicals derived from local feedstocks, including mine tailings, to support HaloCell’s commercial-scale roll-to-roll manufacturing of perovskite solar modules designed for drones, satellites, and low-light energy-harvesting applications.