Enhanced Performance of Hole-Conductor-Free Perovskite Solar Cells by Utilization of Core/Shell-Structured β-NaYF4:Yb3+,Er3+@SiO2 Nanoparticles in Ambient Air

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinghua Hu ◽  
Yu Qiao ◽  
Yingping Yang ◽  
Li Zhao ◽  
Wenhui Liu ◽  
...  
Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1489
Author(s):  
Bhaskar Parida ◽  
Saemon Yoon ◽  
Dong-Won Kang

Materials and processing of transparent electrodes (TEs) are key factors to creating high-performance translucent perovskite solar cells. To date, sputtered indium tin oxide (ITO) has been a general option for a rear TE of translucent solar cells. However, it requires a rather high cost due to vacuum process and also typically causes plasma damage to the underlying layer. Therefore, we introduced TE based on ITO nanoparticles (ITO-NPs) by solution processing in ambient air without any heat treatment. As it reveals insufficient conductivity, Ag nanowires (Ag-NWs) are additionally coated. The ITO-NPs/Ag-NW (0D/1D) bilayer TE exhibits a better figure of merit than sputtered ITO. After constructing CsPbBr3 perovskite solar cells, the device with 0D/1D TE offers similar average visible transmission with the cells with sputtered ITO. More interestingly, the power conversion efficiency of 0D/1D TE device was 5.64%, which outperforms the cell (4.14%) made with sputtered-ITO. These impressive findings could open up a new pathway for the development of low-cost, translucent solar cells with quick processing under ambient air at room temperature.


2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (49) ◽  
pp. 10038-10041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Zhang ◽  
Hua Yu ◽  
Jung-Ho Yun ◽  
Miaoqiang Lyu ◽  
Qiong Wang ◽  
...  

Smooth organolead halide perovskite films were prepared by a facile blow-drying method in ambient air for achieving efficient and low cost meso/planar hybrid structured perovskite solar cells.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3398
Author(s):  
Yi Long ◽  
Kun Liu ◽  
Yongli Zhang ◽  
Wenzhe Li

Inorganic cesium lead halide perovskites, as alternative light absorbers for organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, have attracted more and more attention due to their superb thermal stability for photovoltaic applications. However, the humid air instability of CsPbI2Br perovskite solar cells (PSCs) hinders their further development. The optoelectronic properties of CsPbI2Br films are closely related to the quality of films, so preparing high-quality perovskite films is crucial for fabricating high-performance PSCs. For the first time, we demonstrate that the regulation of ambient temperature of the dry air in the glovebox is able to control the growth of CsPbI2Br crystals and further optimize the morphology of CsPbI2Br film. Through controlling the ambient air temperature assisted crystallization, high-quality CsPbI2Br films are obtained, with advantages such as larger crystalline grains, negligible crystal boundaries, absence of pinholes, lower defect density, and faster carrier mobility. Accordingly, the PSCs based on as-prepared CsPbI2Br film achieve a power conversion efficiency of 15.5% (the maximum stabilized power output of 15.02%). Moreover, the optimized CsPbI2Br films show excellent robustness against moisture and oxygen and maintain the photovoltaic dark phase after 3 h aging in an air atmosphere at room temperature and 35% relative humidity (R.H.). In comparison, the pristine films are completely converted to the yellow phase in 1.5 h.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2102169
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Junjun Jin ◽  
Yapeng Zheng ◽  
Xiang Zhang ◽  
Zhenkun Zhu ◽  
...  

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2364
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan He ◽  
Chi Zhang ◽  
Rangwei Meng ◽  
Xuanhui Luo ◽  
Mengwei Chen ◽  
...  

In this paper, Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) with different shell thicknesses were prepared experimentally and introduced into the photosensitive layer of mesoscopic hole-conductor-free perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on carbon counter electrodes. By combining simulation and experiments, the influences of different shell thickness Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles on the photoelectric properties of the PSCs were studied. The results show that, when the shell thickness of 0.1 wt% Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles is 5 nm, power conversion efficiency is improved from 13.13% to 15.25%, achieving a 16% enhancement. Through the measurement of the relevant parameters of the obtained perovskite film, we found that this gain not only comes from the increase in current density that scholars generally think, but also comes from the improvement of the film quality. Like current gain, this gain is related to the different shell thickness of Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles. Our research provides a new direction for studying the influence mechanism of Ag@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles in perovskite solar cells.


Joule ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Yao ◽  
Shifeng Leng ◽  
Zhiliang Liu ◽  
Linfeng Fei ◽  
Yongjian Chen ◽  
...  

Nano Energy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 408-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yousheng Wang ◽  
Tahmineh Mahmoudi ◽  
Won-Yeop Rho ◽  
Hwa-Young Yang ◽  
Seunghui Seo ◽  
...  

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