Advanced Energy Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
5 years ago

Outstanding Performance of Hole-Blocking Layer-Free Perovskite Solar Cell Using Hierarchically Porous Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Substrate

Outstanding Performance of Hole-Blocking Layer-Free Perovskite Solar Cell Using Hierarchically Porous Fluorine-Doped Tin Oxide Substrate
Kisu Lee, Jaehoon Ryu, Juyoung Yun, Doyk Hwang, Haejun Yu, Jyongsik Jang, Seong Keun Kim, Jungsup Lee, Jong Woo Lee
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are of great interest in current photovoltaic research due to their extraordinary power conversion efficiency of ≈20% and boundless potentialities. The high efficiency has been mostly obtained from TiO2-based PSCs, where TiO2 is utilized as a hole-blocking, mesoporous layer. However, trapped charges and the light-induced photocatalytic effect of TiO2 seriously degrade the perovskite and preclude PSCs from being immediately commercialized. Herein, a simplified PSC is successfully fabricated by eliminating the problematic TiO2 layers, using instead a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/perovskite/hole–conductor/Au design. Simultaneously, the sluggish charge extraction at the FTO/perovskite interface is overcome by modifying the surface of the FTO to a porous structure using electrochemical etching. This surface engineering enables a substantial increase in the photocurrent density and mitigation of the hysteretic behavior of the pristine FTO-based PSC; a remarkable 19.22% efficiency with a low level of hysteresis is obtained. This performance is closely approaching that of conventional PSCs and may facilitate their commercialization due to improved convenience, lower cost, greater stability, and potentially more efficient mass production. Electrochemically etched fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) provides large surfacial area compared with commercial FTO and quickly extracts photoexcited electrons at the FTO/perovskite interface. Accordingly, the photocurrent density and performance of hole-blocking layer-free planar-type perovskite solar cell are improved, where the remarkable power conversion efficiency of 19.22% is achieved.

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

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201700749

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