TY - GEN
T1 - An investigation of inorganic ETL materials for a carbon-based HTL-free Perovskite solar cell
AU - Ijaz, Sumbel
AU - Khan, Danial
AU - Massoud, Yehia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Nanomaterials and nanotechnology have a pivotal role in reducing the footprint of target devices in many fields, in particular electronics and optics. The design of solar cells for meeting energy needs has also been taking advantage of such advancements in nanotechnology. One of the emerging types of solar cells is perovskite solar cells, which are not only cheap but efficient as well. There has been a lot of progress made in their design based on materials and structure. The continuous endeavors for further reduction of the device cost for large-scale deployment have led to a Hole Transparent Layer (HTL)-free structure with carbon electrodes instead of noble metals, as the work function of carbon is close to that of gold. The device layers, including the absorber and Electron Transport Layer (ETL), hold fundamental importance for an HTL-free design where TiO2 has been a very common material for ETL in perovskite solar cells, but it offers low conductivity and is susceptible to photo-catalysis on exposure to UV light. Therefore, we have investigated different materials, including WS2 (BG: 1.8 eV), WO3 (BG: 2.6 eV), ZnSe (BG: 2.82 eV), ZnO (BG: 3.3 eV) for being suitable alternatives to TiO2 (BG: 3.2 eV) as an ETL material. The device structure follows the configuration FTO/ETL/IDL/CH3NH3PbI3/carbon. The optimization of different design parameters, including layer thicknesses, doping concertation, carrier mobility, diffusion length, and operating temperature, has been carried out. The device with ETL made of ZnSe yielded the best results as Jsc of 24.77 mA/cm2, Voc of 1.25 V, FF of 86.29%, and a PCE of 26.76% were obtained.
AB - Nanomaterials and nanotechnology have a pivotal role in reducing the footprint of target devices in many fields, in particular electronics and optics. The design of solar cells for meeting energy needs has also been taking advantage of such advancements in nanotechnology. One of the emerging types of solar cells is perovskite solar cells, which are not only cheap but efficient as well. There has been a lot of progress made in their design based on materials and structure. The continuous endeavors for further reduction of the device cost for large-scale deployment have led to a Hole Transparent Layer (HTL)-free structure with carbon electrodes instead of noble metals, as the work function of carbon is close to that of gold. The device layers, including the absorber and Electron Transport Layer (ETL), hold fundamental importance for an HTL-free design where TiO2 has been a very common material for ETL in perovskite solar cells, but it offers low conductivity and is susceptible to photo-catalysis on exposure to UV light. Therefore, we have investigated different materials, including WS2 (BG: 1.8 eV), WO3 (BG: 2.6 eV), ZnSe (BG: 2.82 eV), ZnO (BG: 3.3 eV) for being suitable alternatives to TiO2 (BG: 3.2 eV) as an ETL material. The device structure follows the configuration FTO/ETL/IDL/CH3NH3PbI3/carbon. The optimization of different design parameters, including layer thicknesses, doping concertation, carrier mobility, diffusion length, and operating temperature, has been carried out. The device with ETL made of ZnSe yielded the best results as Jsc of 24.77 mA/cm2, Voc of 1.25 V, FF of 86.29%, and a PCE of 26.76% were obtained.
KW - ETL
KW - HTL
KW - Perovskite solar cell
KW - power conversion efficiency
KW - SCAPs-1D
KW - ZnSe
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U2 - 10.1117/12.2688198
DO - 10.1117/12.2688198
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85182023908
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - Photonics for Energy III
A2 - Zhong, Haizheng
A2 - Zhu, Rui
A2 - Stranks, Samuel D.
A2 - Wang, Jianpu
PB - SPIE
T2 - Photonics for Energy III 2023
Y2 - 15 October 2023 through 16 October 2023
ER -