Advanced Energy Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
5 years ago

Graphene-Based Electron Transport Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells: A Step-Up for an Efficient Carrier Collection

Graphene-Based Electron Transport Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells: A Step-Up for an Efficient Carrier Collection
Sara Pescetelli, Emmanuel Kymakis, Fabio Gabelloni, Francesco Bonaccorso, Alberto Ansaldo, Antonio Agresti, Erica Burzi, Francesco Biccari, Massimo Gurioli, Antonio Esaú Del Rio Castillo, Anna Vinattieri, Aldo Di Carlo
The electron transport layer (ETL) plays a fundamental role in perovskite solar cells. Recently, graphene-based ETLs have been proved to be good candidate for scalable fabrication processes and to achieve higher carrier injection with respect to most commonly used ETLs. Here, the effects of different graphene-based ETLs in sensitized methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) solar cells are experimentally studied. By means of time-integrated and picosecond time-resolved photoluminescence techniques, the carrier recombination dynamics in MAPI films embedded in different ETLs is investigated. Using graphene doped mesoporous TiO2 (G+mTiO2) with the addition of a lithium-neutralized graphene oxide (GO-Li) interlayer as ETL, it is found find that the carrier collection efficiency is increased by about a factor two with respect to standard mTiO2. Taking advantage of the absorption coefficient dispersion, the MAPI layer morphology is probed, along the thickness, finding that the MAPI embedded in the ETL composed by G+mTiO2 plus GO-Li brings to a very good crystalline quality of the MAPI layer with a trap density about one order of magnitude lower than that found with the other ETLs. In addition, this ETL freezes MAPI at the tetragonal phase, regardless of the temperature. Graphene-based ETLs can open the way to significant improvement of perovskite solar cells. The effects of different graphene-based electron transport layers (ETLs) in perovskite methylammonium lead iodide (MAPI) solar cells are experimentally investigated. Using graphene-doped mesoporous TiO2 (mTiO2) with the addition of a lithium-neutralized graphene oxide interlayer as the ETL, the carrier collection efficiency is increased by approximately a factor two with respect to standard mTiO2.

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

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201701349

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