Issue 10, 2023

Enhancing the photovoltaic performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells via introducing binary-mixed organic electron transport layers

Abstract

Optimizing electron transport layers (ETLs) is a significant way to enhance the photovoltaic performance and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, we introduce a strategy focused on binary-mixed organic ETLs, which dopes an n-type small organic molecule, m-ITTC, into the fullerene [6,6]-phenyl C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) ETLs to fabricate a binary-mixed organic ETLs for use in inverted PSCs. The binary-mixed organic ETLs have suitable energy level alignment at the interface between the perovskite and ETLs, and thus the charge recombination behavior is modified. The PSCs modified with the binary-mixed organic ETLs exhibit a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.62% with negligible hysteresis. Additionally, the binary-mixed organic ETLs can not only effectively prevent moisture intrusion, but also alleviate aggregation under continuous operation, so as, compared to PCBM ETLs, the devices with the binary-mixed organic ETLs exhibit better stability with a T95 of the best-performing devices exceeding 200 h. This work represents a simple and effective way to enhance the efficiency and stability of PSCs.

Graphical abstract: Enhancing the photovoltaic performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells via introducing binary-mixed organic electron transport layers

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Oct 2022
Accepted
07 Feb 2023
First published
08 Feb 2023

New J. Chem., 2023,47, 5048-5055

Enhancing the photovoltaic performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells via introducing binary-mixed organic electron transport layers

S. Wang, B. Wang, S. He, Y. Wang, J. Cheng and Y. Li, New J. Chem., 2023, 47, 5048 DOI: 10.1039/D2NJ05127C

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