Understanding and suppressing non-radiative losses in methylammonium-free wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells

Author(s):  
Robert D. J. Oliver ◽  
Pietro Caprioglio ◽  
Francisco Peña-Camargo ◽  
Leonardo Buizza ◽  
Fengshuo Zu ◽  
...  

With power conversion efficiencies of perovskite-on-silicon and all-perovskite tandem solar cells increasing at rapid pace, wide bandgap (> 1.7 eV) metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) are becoming a major focus of academic...

Author(s):  
Rui He ◽  
Shengqiang Ren ◽  
Cong Chen ◽  
Zongjin Yi ◽  
Yi Luo ◽  
...  

The past decade has witnessed rapid development of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of which has been rapidly boosted from the initial 3.8% to a...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Mallick ◽  
Iris Visoly-Fisher

Following the achievement of impressive power conversion efficiencies of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the current challenges of this technology include long-term stability, upscaling for industrial processing, and its environmental effect....


Author(s):  
Erkan Aydin ◽  
Jiang Liu ◽  
Esma Ugur ◽  
RANDI AZMI ◽  
George T Harrison ◽  
...  

Translating the high power conversion efficiencies of single-junction perovskite solar cells in their classic, non-inverted (n-i-p) architecture to efficient monolithic n-i-p perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with high current densities has...


Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui He ◽  
Tingting Chen ◽  
Zhipeng Xuan ◽  
Tianzhen Guo ◽  
Jincheng Luo ◽  
...  

Abstract Wide-bandgap (wide-E g , ∼1.7 eV or higher) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted extensive attention due to the great potential of fabricating high-performance perovskite-based tandem solar cells via combining with low-bandgap absorbers, which is considered promising to exceed the Shockley–Queisser efficiency limit. However, inverted wide-E g PSCs with a minimized open-circuit voltage (V oc) loss, which are more suitable to prepare all-perovskite tandem devices, are still lacking study. Here, we report a strategy of adding 1,3,5-tris (bromomethyl) benzene (TBB) into wide-E g perovskite absorber to passivate the perovskite film, leading to an enhanced average V oc. Incorporation of TBB prolongs carrier lifetimes in wide-E g perovskite due to reduction of defects in perovskites and makes a better energy level matching between perovskite absorber and electron transport layer. As a result, we achieve the power conversion efficiency of 17.12% for our inverted TBB-doped PSC with an enhanced V oc of 1.19 V, compared with that (16.14%) for the control one (1.14 V).


Author(s):  
Shanti Maria Liga ◽  
Gerasimos Konstantatos

Cesium titanium halide perovskites are novel lead-free optoelectronic materials that have attracted attention in the last two years for their application in solar cells with power conversion efficiencies reaching 3.3%....


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guiming Peng ◽  
Xueqing Xu ◽  
Gang Xu

The ramping solar energy to electricity conversion efficiencies of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells during the last five years have opened new doors to low-cost solar energy. The record power conversion efficiency has climbed to 19.3% in August 2014 and then jumped to 20.1% in November. In this review, the main achievements for perovskite solar cells categorized from a viewpoint of device structure are overviewed. The challenges and prospects for future development of this field are also briefly presented.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Shahiduzzaman ◽  
Toshiharu Sakuma ◽  
Tetsuya Kaneko ◽  
Koji Tomita ◽  
Masao Isomura ◽  
...  

AbstractIn this study, a new, simple, and novel oblique electrostatic inkjet (OEI) technique is developed to deposit a titanium oxide (TiO2) compact layer (CL) on fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate without the need for a vacuum environment for the first time. The TiO2 is used as electron transport layers (ETL) in planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs). This bottom-up OEI technique enables the control of the surface morphology and thickness of the TiO2 CL by simply manipulating the coating time. The OEI-fabricated TiO2 is characterized tested and the results are compared with that of TiO2 CLs produced by spin-coating and spray pyrolysis. The OEI-deposited TiO2 CL exhibits satisfactory surface coverage and smooth morphology, conducive for the ETLs in PSCs. The power-conversion efficiencies of PSCs with OEI-deposited TiO2 CL as the ETL were as high as 13.19%. Therefore, the present study provides an important advance in the effort to develop simple, low-cost, and easily scaled-up techniques. OEI may be a new candidate for depositing TiO2 CL ETLs for highly efficient planar PSCs, thus potentially contributing to future mass production.


2020 ◽  
pp. 232-248
Author(s):  
Jinhui Tong ◽  
Qi Jiang ◽  
Fei Zhang ◽  
Seok Beom Kang ◽  
Dong Hoe Kim ◽  
...  

RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (59) ◽  
pp. 34152-34157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junmei Cao ◽  
Fanning Meng ◽  
Liguo Gao ◽  
Shuzhang Yang ◽  
Yeling Yan ◽  
...  

The 2D Mxene material was successfully used as the counter electrode of the perovskite solar cell and achieved power conversion efficiencies of 13.84%.


2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
pp. 030-037 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyun Zhang ◽  
Wenrui Liu ◽  
Shengjie Xu ◽  
Xiaozhang Zhu

Recently, by elaborately designing nonfullerene acceptors and selecting suitable polymer donors great progresses have been made towards binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 15%. Ternary organic photovoltaics by introducing a third component into the host binary system is recognized to be highly effective to elevate the performance through extending the light absorption, manipulating the recombination behavior of the carriers, and improving the morphology of the active layer. In this work, we synthesized a new electron-acceptor ZITI-4F matching it with the wide-bandgap polymer donor PBDB-T The PBDB-T:ZITI-4F-based OSC showed a high PCE of 12.33%. After introducing 40% of PC71BM as the third component, the ternary device achieved an improved PCE of 13.40% with simultaneously improved photovoltaic parameters. The higher performance of the ternary device can be attributed to the improved and more balanced charge mobility, reduced bimolecular recombination, and more favorable morphology. These results indicate that the cooperation of a fullerene-based acceptor and a nonfullerene acceptor to fabricate ternary OSCs is an effective approach to optimizing morphology and therefore to increase the performance of OSCs.


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