Design of Dopant-Free Small Molecular Hole Transport Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells: A Viewpoint from Defect Passivation

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihua Tang ◽  
Wanghai Wang ◽  
Jie Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Solution Processing ◽  
Effective Solution ◽  
Promising Technology ◽  
High Efficient ◽  
Defect Passivation ◽  
The Cost

The overwhelming improvement in performance and the cost-effective solution processing enable perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) as a promising technology to photovoltaic industry. Doped hole transport materials (HTMs) based high-efficient PVSCs...

scholarly journals Progress on the Synthesis and Application of CuSCN Inorganic Hole Transport Material in Perovskite Solar Cells

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Funeka Matebese ◽  
Raymond Taziwa ◽  
Dorcas Mutukwa
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Energy Levels ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Hole Mobility ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Recombination Processes ◽  
Short Synthesis ◽  
P Type

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.

scholarly journals Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Analysis of Hole Transporting Material Free Mesoporous and Planar Perovskite Solar Cells

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1635
Author(s):  
Sumayya M. Abdulrahim ◽  
Zubair Ahmad ◽  
Jolly Bahadra ◽  
Noora J. Al-Thani
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy ◽  
Impedance Spectroscopy ◽  
Electrochemical Impedance ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Large Area ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hole Transporting Material

The future photovoltaic technologies based on perovskite materials are aimed to build low tech, truly economical, easily fabricated, broadly deployable, and trustworthy solar cells. Hole transport material (HTM) free perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are among the most likely architectures which hold a distinctive design and provide a simple way to produce large-area and cost-effective manufacture of PSCs. Notably, in the monolithic scheme of the HTM-free PSCs, all layers can be printed using highly reproducible and morphology-controlled methods, and this design has successfully been demonstrated for industrial-scale fabrication. In this review article, we comprehensively describe the recent advancements in the different types of mesoporous (nanostructured) and planar HTM-free PSCs. In addition, the effect of various nanostructures and mesoporous layers on their performance is discussed using the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) technique. We bring together the different perspectives that researchers have developed to interpret and analyze the EIS data of the HTM-free PSCs. Their analysis using the EIS tool, the limitations of these studies, and the future work directions to overcome these limitations to enhance the performance of HTM-free PSCs are comprehensively considered.

Polymeric, Cost-Effective, Dopant-Free Hole Transport Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (50) ◽  
pp. 19700-19707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuguo Zhang ◽  
Zhaoyang Yao ◽  
Yaxiao Guo ◽  
Yuanyuan Li ◽  
Jan Bergstrand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Free Hole ◽  
Effective Dopant

A novel and cost effective CZTS hole transport material applied in perovskite solar cells

CrystEngComm ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (47) ◽  
pp. 7677-7687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddhant B. Patel ◽  
Amar H. Patel ◽  
Jignasa V. Gohel
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Ambient Condition ◽  
Nano Particles

CZTS nano-particles are synthesized under ambient condition and applied as low-cost and sustainable inorganic HTM in Perovskite solar cells.

scholarly journals Quinoidal 2,2′,6,6′-Tetraphenyl-Dipyranylidene as a Dopant-Free Hole-Transport Material for Stable and Cost-Effective Perovskite Solar Cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 1852-1858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Shen ◽  
Marc Courté ◽  
Anurag Krishna ◽  
Shasha Tang ◽  
Denis Fichou
Keyword(s):  
Solar Cells ◽  
Perovskite Solar Cells ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
Free Hole
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