Issue 26, 2022

Degradation conceptualization of an innovative perovskite solar cell fabricated using SnO2 and P3HT as electron and hole transport layers

Abstract

The emerging consumer electronics market, indoor and building-integrated photovoltaics, has provided unique commercialization opportunities for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Despite PSCs' wonderful performance on the laboratory scale, commercialization may not be possible for these new technologies due to their stability and scaling issues. Herein, we will be demonstrating the fabrication and characterization of a PSC of the structure FTO/ETL (∼70 nm)/MAPbI3 (∼300 nm)/P3HT (∼100 nm)/Ag (∼100 nm), using SnO2 or SnO2/TCNE (tetracyanoethylene) as an electron transport layer (ETL) and undoped P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)) as a hole transport layer (HTL) with MAPbI3 as an active layer. The fabricated champion device showed an efficiency, fill factor (FF), open-circuit voltage (Voc), and short circuit current density (Jsc) of ∼8%, ∼52%, ∼0.85 V, ∼18.4 mA cm−2 and ∼7.8%, ∼63%, ∼0.87 V, ∼14.2 mA cm−2 on the active area of 4 × 3 mm2 and 5 × 4 mm2 respectively. Moreover, the passivation of the SnO2 layer with TCNE improves the device efficiency and its fabrication success probability. Further, the device degradation behaviour is compared with that of the standard cell of the structure FTO/SnO2 (∼70 nm)/MAPbI3 (∼300 nm)/spiro-OMeTAD (∼100 nm)/Ag (∼100 nm) fabricated under a similar lab condition. The device (with an initial efficiency of ∼5.8%) shows better stability of ∼twenty days with respect to standard cells (with an initial efficiency of ∼5%) of stability of ∼eleven days under ambient conditions (temp ∼30 °C, humidity ∼60%). The T80 lifetime is ∼16 and ∼5 days for the fabricated and standard devices. Moreover, the degradation behaviour of the device is analysed in view of the impact of SnO2, P3HT, and silver electrodes instead of Au and compared with the existing literature on perovskite devices for the device development.

Graphical abstract: Degradation conceptualization of an innovative perovskite solar cell fabricated using SnO2 and P3HT as electron and hole transport layers

Associated articles

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 May 2022
Accepted
01 Jun 2022
First published
01 Jun 2022

New J. Chem., 2022,46, 12751-12766

Degradation conceptualization of an innovative perovskite solar cell fabricated using SnO2 and P3HT as electron and hole transport layers

P. V. Reddy, P. Giri and J. P. Tiwari, New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 12751 DOI: 10.1039/D2NJ02274E

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements