Advanced Energy Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
5 years ago

Enhanced Light Harvesting in Perovskite Solar Cells by a Bioinspired Nanostructured Back Electrode

Enhanced Light Harvesting in Perovskite Solar Cells by a Bioinspired Nanostructured Back Electrode
Wen-Jun Zhang, Chi Li, Rui-Peng Xu, Zhong-Zhi Xie, Jing-De Chen, Chun-Sing Lee, Xin-Dong Zhao, Jian Wei, Jian-Xin Tang, Yan-Qing Li
Light management holds great promise of realizing high-performance perovskite solar cells by improving the sunlight absorption with lower recombination current and thus higher power conversion efficiency (PCE). Here, a convenient and scalable light trapping scheme is demonstrated by incorporating bioinspired moth-eye nanostructures into the metal back electrode via soft imprinting technique to enhance the light harvesting in organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells. Compared to the flat reference cell with a methylammonium lead halide perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3−xClx) absorber, 14.3% of short-circuit current improvement is achieved for the patterned devices with moth-eye nanostructures, yielding an increased PCE up to 16.31% without sacrificing the open-circuit voltage and fill factor. The experimental and theoretical characterizations verify that the cell performance enhancement is mainly ascribed by the broadband polarization-insensitive light scattering and surface plasmonic effects due to the patterned metal back electrode. It is noteworthy that this light trapping strategy is fully compatible with solution-processed perovskite solar cells and opens up many opportunities toward the future photovoltaic applications. A convenient and scalable light trapping scheme is demonstrated to enhance the light harvesting in organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells, which is realized by incorporating bioinspired moth-eye nanostructures into the metal back electrode via soft imprinting technique. The efficiency is enhanced to 16.3% due to self-enhanced absorption by broadband polarization-insensitive light scattering and surface plasmonic effect.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201700492

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