Issue 11, 2016

A composite nanostructured electron-transport layer for stable hole-conductor free perovskite solar cells: design and characterization

Abstract

A novel composite nanostructured titanium dioxide (TiO2) based electron-transport layer (ETL) is designed by combining size blended nanoparticles (SBNP) and nanoarrays (NA) for efficient perovskite solar cell (PSC) applications. The composite nanostructured (SBNP + NA) ETL is successfully employed in hole-conductor free PSCs, there by achieving a stable device with a maximum efficiency of 13.5%. The improvement in the performance is attributed to the better charge transport and lower recombination in the SBNP + NA ETL. Despite the stable high efficiency, SBNP + NA ETL based PSCs are advantageous owing to their low cost, ease of all-solution fabrication process in an open environment and good reproducibility.

Graphical abstract: A composite nanostructured electron-transport layer for stable hole-conductor free perovskite solar cells: design and characterization

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
20 Dec 2015
Accepted
22 Feb 2016
First published
22 Feb 2016

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 5847-5851

A composite nanostructured electron-transport layer for stable hole-conductor free perovskite solar cells: design and characterization

Z. Yu, F. Qi, P. Liu, S. You, K. K. Kondamareddy, C. Wang, N. Cheng, S. Bai, W. Liu, S. Guo and X. Zhao, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 5847 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR09045H

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