One-Step Facile Synthesis of a Simple Hole Transport Material for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells

Hu Chen, Daniel Bryant, Joel Troughton, Mindaugas Kirkus, Marios Neophytou, Xiaohe Miao, James R. Durrant, Iain McCulloch

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Abstract

A hole transporting material was designed for use in perovskite solar cells, with a facile one-step synthesis from inexpensive, com-mercially available reagents. The molecule comprises a central fluorinated phenyl core with pendant aryl amines, namely, 3,6-difluoro-N1,N1,N2,N2,N4,N4,N5,N5-octakis(4-methoxyphenyl)benzene-1,2,4,5-tetraamine (DFTAB). A power conversion efficiency of up to 10.4% was achieved in a mesoporous perovskite device architecture. The merits of a simple and potentially low cost syn-thetic route as well as promising performance in perovskite devices, encourages further development of this materials class as new low-cost hole transporting materials for the scale up of perovskite solar cells.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2515-2518
Number of pages4
JournalChemistry of Materials
Volume28
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 13 2016

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