Improving power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells by cooperative LSPR of gold-silver dual nanoparticles

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/5/058401

Abstract

Enhancing optical and electrical performances is effective in improving power conversion efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Here, gold and silver dual nanoparticles were imported and embedded in the hole transport layer of perovskite solar cells. Due to the cooperative localized surface plasmon resonance of these two kinds of metal nanostructures, light harvest of perovskite material layer and the electrical performance of device were improved, which finally upgraded short circuit current density by 10.0%, and helped to increase power conversion efficiency from 10.4% to 11.6% under AM 1.5G illumination with intensity of 100 mW/cm². In addition, we explored the influence of silver and gold nanoparticles on charge carrier generation, dissociation, recombination, and transportation inside perovskite solar cells.

Keywords: light harvest perovskite solar cells silver nanoparticle gold nanoparticle

Received: 08 January 2017
Revised: 17 February 2017
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PACS:	84.60.Jt	(Photoelectric conversion)
	88.40.H-	(Solar cells (photovoltaics))
	73.20.Mf	(Collective excitations (including excitons, polarons, plasmons and other charge-density excitations))
	78.67.-n	(Optical properties of low-dimensional, mesoscopic, and nanoscale materials and structures)

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Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61306080, 51203192, 11334014, and 51664047), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (Grant No. 2015JJ3143), and the Scientific and Technological Project of Hunan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, China.

Corresponding Authors: Bing-chu Yang, Cong-hua Zhou
E-mail: bingchuyang@csu.edu.cn;chzhou@csu.edu.cn

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Peng Liu(刘鹏), Bing-chu Yang(杨兵初), Gang Liu(刘钢), Run-sheng Wu(吴闰生), Chu-jun Zhang(张楚俊), Fang Wan(万方), Shui-gen Li(李水根), Jun-liang Yang(阳军亮), Yong-li Gao(高永立), Cong-hua Zhou(周聪华) Improving power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells by cooperative LSPR of gold-silver dual nanoparticles 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 058401

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