journal article·2020-04-15

Enhanced Device Performance with Passivation of the TiO2 Surface Using a Carboxylic Acid Fullerene Monolayer for a SnPb Perovskite Solar Cell with a Normal Planar Structure

Kengo Hamada, Ryo Tanaka, Muhammad Akmal Kamarudin, Qing Shen, Satoshi Iikubo, Takashi Minemoto, Kenji Yoshino, Taro Toyoda, Tingli Ma, Dong-Won Kang, Shuzi Hayase

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces· Volume 12· Issue 15
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Abstract

Research on tin–lead (SnPb) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has gained popularity in recent years because of their low band gap, which could be applied to tandem solar cells. However, most of the work is based on inverted PSCs using PEDOT:PSS as the hole-transport layer as normal-structure PSCs show lower efficiency. In this work, the reason behind the low efficiency of normal-structure SnPb PSCs is elucidated and surface passivation has been tested as a method to overcome the problem. In the case of normal PSCs, at the interface between the titania layer and SnPb perovskite, there are many carrier traps observed originating from Ti–O–Sn bonds. In order to avoid the direct contact between titania and the SnPb perovskite layer, the titania surface is passivated with carboxylic acid C60 resulting in an efficiency increase from 5.14 to 7.91%. This will provide a direction of enhancing the efficiency of the normal-structure SnPb PSCs through heterojunction engineering.
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OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Conducting polymers and applications · Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties

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Affiliations

Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka-ken 808-0196, Japan

Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Miyazaki University, 1-1 Gakuen Kibanadai Nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192 Japan

School of Energy Systems Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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