Mechanism of biphasic charge recombination and accumulation in TiO2mesoporous structured perovskite solar cells

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 12128-12134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Yi Wang ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
Man Yu ◽  
Jun Han ◽  
Zhi-Xin Guo ◽  
...  

The charge recombination process is dominated by perovskite or mesoporous TiO2owing to different charge populations at various energy levels.

Author(s):  
Jionghua Wu ◽  
Yusheng Li ◽  
Yiming Li ◽  
Weihao Xie ◽  
Jiangjian Shi ◽  
...  

Hysteresis is used to predict perovskites solar cells recombination properties, implying that hysteresis is a double-edged sword for hybrid perovskite.


Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Funeka Matebese ◽  
Raymond Taziwa ◽  
Dorcas Mutukwa

P-type wide bandgap semiconductor materials such as CuI, NiO, Cu2O and CuSCN are currently undergoing intense research as viable alternative hole transport materials (HTMs) to the spiro-OMeTAD in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Despite 23.3% efficiency of PSCs, there are still a number of issues in addition to the toxicology of Pb such as instability and high-cost of the current HTM that needs to be urgently addressed. To that end, copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) HTMs in addition to robustness have high stability, high hole mobility, and suitable energy levels as compared to spiro-OMeTAD HTM. CuSCN HTM layer use affordable materials, require short synthesis routes, require simple synthetic techniques such as spin-coating and doctor-blading, thus offer a viable way of developing cost-effective PSCs. HTMs play a vital role in PSCs as they can enhance the performance of a device by reducing charge recombination processes. In this review paper, we report on the current progress of CuSCN HTMs that have been reported to date in PSCs. CuSCN HTMs have shown enhanced stability when exposed to weather elements as the solar devices retained their initial efficiency by a greater percentage. The efficiency reported to date is greater than 20% and has a potential of increasing, as well as maintaining thermal stability.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 1703376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Guerrero ◽  
Agustín Bou ◽  
Gebhard Matt ◽  
Osbel Almora ◽  
Thomas Heumüller ◽  
...  

ACS Photonics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 589-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongqin Bi ◽  
Ahmed M. El-Zohry ◽  
Anders Hagfeldt ◽  
Gerrit Boschloo

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 665-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Höcker ◽  
David Kiermasch ◽  
Philipp Rieder ◽  
Kristofer Tvingstedt ◽  
Andreas Baumann ◽  
...  

AbstractThe organic and hydrophobic polymer poly[N, N′-bis(4-butilphenyl)-N, N′-bis(phenyl)-benzidine] (polyTPD) represents a promising hole transport layer (HTL) for perovskite photovoltaics due to its suitable energy levels, whereby its highest occupied molecular orbital level matches well with the valence band level of methylammonium lead triiodide (CH3NH3PbI3, MAPbI3) perovskite. However, processing a perovskite layer from the solution on the surface of this organic material, is found to be difficult due to the surface properties of the latter. In this study, we evaluate efficient p-i-n type MAPbI3 perovskite solar cells employing differently processed polyTPD layers. We found that the surface coverage of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer strongly depends on the preparation method of the underlying polyTPD layer. By varying the solvents for the polyTPD precursor, its concentration, and by applying an optimised two-step perovskite deposition technique we increased both the surface coverage of the perovskite layer as well as the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the corresponding solar cell devices. Our simple solvent-engineering approach demonstrates that no further interface modifications are needed for a successful preparation of efficient planar photovoltaic devices with PCEs in the range of 15 %–16 %.


2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (31) ◽  
pp. 9145-9149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongbing Zhao ◽  
Zonglong Zhu ◽  
Ming-Yu Kuo ◽  
Chu-Chen Chueh ◽  
Alex K.-Y. Jen

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 3167-3174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Ren ◽  
Qiang Luo ◽  
Qinzhi Hou ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Tao Liu ◽  
...  

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