Crystal Engineering Approach for Fabrication of Inverted Perovskite Solar Cell in Ambient Conditions

Inga Ermanova, Narges Yaghoobi Nia, Enrico Lamanna, Elisabetta Di Bartolomeo, Evgeny Kolesnikov, Lev Luchnikov and Aldo Di Carlo
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Inga Ermanova: LASE—Laboratory of Advanced Solar Energy, National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Leninsky Prospect 4, 119049 Moscow, Russia
Narges Yaghoobi Nia: CHOSE—Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’, via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Enrico Lamanna: CHOSE—Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, University of Rome ‘‘Tor Vergata’’, via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Elisabetta Di Bartolomeo: Department of Chemical Science and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Evgeny Kolesnikov: Department of Functional Nanosystems and High-Temperature Materials, National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Leninsky Prospect 4, 119049 Moscow, Russia
Lev Luchnikov: LASE—Laboratory of Advanced Solar Energy, National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Leninsky Prospect 4, 119049 Moscow, Russia
Aldo Di Carlo: LASE—Laboratory of Advanced Solar Energy, National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, Leninsky Prospect 4, 119049 Moscow, Russia

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate the high potentialities of pristine single-cation and mixed cation/anion perovskite solar cells (PSC) fabricated by sequential method deposition in p-i-n planar architecture (ITO/NiO X /Perovskite/PCBM/BCP/Ag) in ambient conditions. We applied the crystal engineering approach for perovskite deposition to control the quality and crystallinity of the light-harvesting film. The formation of a full converted and uniform perovskite absorber layer from poriferous pre-film on a planar hole transporting layer (HTL) is one of the crucial factors for the fabrication of high-performance PSCs. We show that the in-air sequential deposited MAPbI 3 -based PSCs on planar nickel oxide (NiO X ) permitted to obtain a Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE) exceeding 14% while the (FA,MA,Cs)Pb(I,Br) 3 -based PSC achieved 15.6%. In this paper we also compared the influence of transporting layers on the cell performance by testing material depositions quantity and thickness (for hole transporting layer), and conditions of deposition processes (for electron transporting layer). Moreover, we optimized second step of perovskite deposition by varying the dipping time of substrates into the MA(I,Br) solution. We have shown that the layer by layer deposition of the NiOx is the key point to improve the efficiency for inverted perovskite solar cell out of glove-box using sequential deposition method, increasing the relative efficiency of +26% with respect to reference cells.

Keywords: sequential deposition; out of glove-box; layer by layer deposition; NiOx; low-cost fabrication (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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