Overcoming the Interface Losses in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite-Based Solar Cells

Hou Y, Chen W, Baran D, Stubhan T, Luechinger NA, Hartmeier B, Richter M, Min J, Chen S, Ramírez Quiroz CO, Li N, Zhang H, Heumüller T, Matt G, Osvet A, Forberich K, Zhang ZG, Li Y, Winter B, Schweizer P, Spiecker E, Brabec C (2016)

Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag

Pages Range: 5112-5120

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504168

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to demonstrate that low-temperature processed NiO-based nanocrystal ink (LT-NiO) has the potential to form an almost loss-free hole selective interface for flat heterojunction perovskite-based solar cells. First, The patterned ITO substrates were ultrasonic cleaned with acetone and isopropanol for 10 min each. On cleaned ITO substrate, a dense and smooth layer of LT-NiO was deposited by spin coating and followed by annealing at 70?230°C for 10 min in air to remove organic components. The as-prepared perovskite precursor solution was filtered using 0.45 μm PTFE syringe filter and coated onto the ITO/LT-NiO substrate at a speed of 4000 r.p.m. for 35 s. J-V characteristics of all the devices were measured using a source measurement unit from BoTest. FTPS:FTPS-EQE measurements were carried out using a Vertex 70 from Brucker optics, equipped with QTH lamp, quartz beam splitter and external detector option. A major improvement in open circuit voltage is found by replacing PEDOT:PSS with LT-NiO. A detailed analysis reveals that LT-NiO significantly reduces non-radiative recombination at the PEDOT:PSS/perovskite interface and further enhances the radiative LED efficiency towards unity which brings open circuit voltage closer to the radiative limit.

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Nanograde Ltd. Switzerland (CH) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) / 中国科学院 China (CN)

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APA:

Hou, Y., Chen, W., Baran, D., Stubhan, T., Luechinger, N.A., Hartmeier, B.,... Brabec, C. (2016). Overcoming the Interface Losses in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite-Based Solar Cells. Advanced Materials, 5112-5120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201504168

MLA:

Hou, Yi, et al. "Overcoming the Interface Losses in Planar Heterojunction Perovskite-Based Solar Cells." Advanced Materials (2016): 5112-5120.

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