scholarly journals A high‐efficiency and stable perovskite solar cell fabricated in ambient air using a polyaniline passivation layer

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong In Kim ◽  
Ji Won Lee ◽  
Rak Hyun Jeong ◽  
Jin-Hyo Boo

AbstractOver the past number of years, the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells has remained at 25.5%, reflecting a respectable result for the general incorporation of organometallic trihalide perovskite solar cells. However, perovskite solar cells still suffer from long-term stability issues. Perovskite decomposes upon exposure to moisture, thermal, and UV-A light. Studies related to this context have remained ongoing. Recently, research was mainly conducted on the stability of perovskite against non-radiative recombination. This study improved a critical instability in perovskite solar cells arising from non-radiative recombination and UV-A light using a passivation layer. The passivation layer comprised a polyaniline (PANI) polymer as an interfacial modifier inserted between the active layer and the electron transport layer. Accordingly, the UV-A light did not reach the active layer and confined the Pb2+ ions at PANI passivation layer. This study optimized the perovskite solar cells by controlling the concentration, thickness and drying conditions of the PANI passivation layer. As a result, the efficiency of the perovskite solar cell was achieved 15.1% and showed over 84% maintain in efficiency in the ambient air for one month using the 65 nm PANI passivation layer.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Fang ◽  
Bo Chen ◽  
Bangkai Gu ◽  
Linxing Meng ◽  
Hao Lu ◽  
...  

UV induced decomposition of perovskite material is one of main factors to severely destroy perovskite solar cells for instability. Here we report a UV stable perovskite solar cell with a...


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-347
Author(s):  
K. Bhavsar ◽  
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P.B. Lapsiwala ◽  

Perovskite solar cells have become a hot topic in the solar energy device area due to high efficiency and low cost photovoltaic technology. However, their function is limited by expensive hole transport material (HTM) and high temperature process electron transport material (ETM) layer is common device structure. Numerical simulation is a crucial technique in deeply understanding the operational mechanisms of solar cells and structure optimization for different devices. In this paper, device modelling for different perovskite solar cell has been performed for different ETM layer, namely: TiO2, ZnO, SnO2, PCBM (phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester), CdZnS, C60, IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide), WS2 and CdS and effect of band gap upon the power conversion efficiency of device as well as effect of absorber thickness have been examined. The SCAPS 1D (Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator) has been a tool used for numerical simulation of these devices.


The researchers now days are avid of solar cells despite the efficiency issues. As lead-based halide perovskite exhibit toxic nature alternatives for the anti- toxic perovskite solar cells(PSCs) are gaining much research. Bis(sulfanylidene )tungsten is a toxic free feasible emerging option with direct band gap of value 1.8 eV. Tungsten disulfide is other chemical name of Bis(sulfanylidene)tungsten. In this paper, perovskite solar cell (PSC) with Bis(sulfanylidene)tungsten (WS2 ) as electron transport layer and spiro-OMeTAD as hole transport layer is modelled and simulated using SCAPS software to analyze performance parameters. The device simulations results are compared for comprehensive defect study of WS2 as ETL. With integration of WS2 and spiro-OMeTAD in the perovskite design, the outcomes are proficient enough with 25.96% of PCE, 22.06 mA/cm2 Jsc, 1.280V Voc and 91.76% FF. Launching the batch setup for absorber layer thickness further resulted with competent PCE 27.78%. The outcomes signified that the toxic-free WS2 based PSC can be a prominent upcoming perspective in terms of environmentally pristine nature and capitulate comparative high efficiency


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (20) ◽  
pp. 9514-9522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiexuan Jiang ◽  
Zhiwen Jin ◽  
Jie Lei ◽  
Qian Wang ◽  
Xisheng Zhang ◽  
...  

With ITIC-modified TiO2, the planar perovskite solar cell performance has been dramatically increased from 17.12% to 20.08%.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (43) ◽  
pp. 8986-8989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Dong ◽  
Zhaoxin Wu ◽  
Bin Xia ◽  
Jun Xi ◽  
Fang Yuan ◽  
...  

A highly-efficient inverted heterojunction perovskite solar cell is reported, with a double-layer PCBM film deposited by sequential spin-coating/vapor deposition as the electron transport layer.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Firdaus Mohamad Noh ◽  
Chin Hoong Teh ◽  
Rusli Daik ◽  
Eng Liang Lim ◽  
Chi Chin Yap ◽  
...  

The architecture of the electron transport layer strongly influences the device efficiency, long-term stability, and hysteresis behavior of perovskite solar cells.


2020 ◽  
Vol 861 ◽  
pp. 295-300
Author(s):  
Li Han ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Ying Kai Guo ◽  
Xing Gao ◽  
Wen He

Electron transport layer (ETL) plays an important role in improving the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). SnO2 is a good semiconductor material with high electromigration and wide band gap. TiO2 has the advantages of superior position of conducting band (CB), long electronic life and low preparation cost, so SnO2 and TiO2 are often used in ETL of PSCs. In this paper, the preparation progress of SnO2, TiO2 and SnO2/TiO2 composite ETL is reviewed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  

The efficiency of MASnI3 based solar cell with various hole transport material (HTM) layers including Spiro-OMeTAD, PEDOT:Pss, and Cu2O is studied. Zinc oxide (ZnO) layer is proposed as electron transport layer for lead-free CH3NH3SnI3 based Perovskite solar cells. The influence of device parameters such as doping level of the active layer, thickness of the CH3NH3SnI3 layer and working temperature is discussed. For optimum parameters of all three structures, efficiency of 24.17%, 24.50%, and 25.36% for PEDOT:Pss, Spiro-OMeTAD, and Cu2O, respectively is achieved. To study the optimized performance of this Perovskite solar cell, SCAPS-1D software is considered.


2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (18) ◽  
pp. 7130-7135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaomeng Zhu ◽  
Jing Sun ◽  
Shuai Yuan ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
Zhiwen Qiu ◽  
...  

The solar cell with carbon QDs-doped PCBM as its electron transporting layer shows the highest PCE of 18.1%.


2018 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 01021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Istighfari Dzikri ◽  
Michael Hariadi ◽  
Retno Wigajatri Purnamaningsih ◽  
Nji Raden Poespawati

Research in solar cells is needed to maximize Indonesia’s vast solar potential that can reach up to 207.898 MW with an average radiation of 4.8 kWh/m2/day. Organometallic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained immense attention due to their rapid increase in efficiency and compatibility with low-cost fabrication methods. Understanding the role of hole transport layer is very important to obtain highly efficient PSCs. In this work, we studied the effect of Hole Transport Layer (HTL) to the performance of perovskite solar cell. The devices with HTL exhibit substantial increase in power conversion efficiency, open circuit voltage and short circuit current compared to the device without HTL. The best performing device is PSC with CuSCN as HTL layer, namely Voc of 0.24, Isc of 1.79 mA, 0.27 FF and efficiency of 0.09%.


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