NiCo2O4 Arrays with Tailored Morphology as Hole Transport Layers of Perovskite Solar Cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaowu Li ◽  
Xin Yin ◽  
Lixin Song ◽  
Wei-hsiang Chen ◽  
Ping-Fan Du ◽  
...  

Inorganic p-type semiconductors have been broadly served as hole transport materials (HTLs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in recent years. Among them, NiCo2O4 with its excellent conductivity and hole mobility,...

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 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 1242-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Ngoc Duy Pham ◽  
Disheng Yao ◽  
Huaiyong Zhu ◽  
Prasad Yarlagadda ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yalcin ◽  
M. Can ◽  
C. Rodriguez-Seco ◽  
E. Aktas ◽  
R. Pudi ◽  
...  

Herein, we studied the use of two different Self Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) made of semiconductor hole transport organic molecules to replace the most common p-type contact, PEDOT:PSS, in PiN methyl ammonium lead iodide perovskite solar cells (PSCs).


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongyao Jiang ◽  
Chieh-Ting Lin ◽  
Tian Du ◽  
Thomas J Macdonald ◽  
Yi-Chun Chin ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca De Rossi ◽  
Giacomo Renno ◽  
Babak Taheri ◽  
Narges Yaghoobi Nia ◽  
Viktoria Ilieva ◽  
...  

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