Factors influencing the performance of paintable carbon-based perovskite solar cells fabricated in ambient air

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/3/038402

Abstract To date, many efforts have been made to improve the performance of paintable carbon-based (PC-based) perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Though great progress has been achieved, their power conversion efficiencies are still relatively low compared with hole-transport-materials-based PSCs. General research on influencing factors of performance in PC-based PSCs is still insufficient. In this work, PC-based PSCs were fabricated in ambient air and four groups of controlled experiments were performed in which the PbI₂ layers were prepared with or without antisolvent extraction treatment. These four groups of experiments were designed to find out the effect of different influencing factors on PC-based PSCs performance, for example, PbI₂ residual, the surface morphology of the perovskite film, the surface roughness of the perovskite film, and the contact status of the perovskite/carbon electrode interface. With a systematic analysis, we demonstrated that the contact status of the perovskite/carbon electrode interface played a vital role in PC-based PSCs, and a flat, smooth perovskite surface could help to improve this contact status significantly. Besides, on the precondition of a poor contact interface, no PbI₂ residual and a good surface morphology only brought limited benefits to the performances of PC-based PSCs.

Keywords: influencing factors paintable carbon-based perovskite solar cells contact status

Received: 17 October 2017
Revised: 18 November 2017
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PACS:	84.60.Jt	(Photoelectric conversion)
	88.40.H-	(Solar cells (photovoltaics))
	84.60.Bk	(Performance characteristics of energy conversion systems; figure of merit)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51702245) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. WUT: 2017IB013).

Corresponding Authors: Feng-Xiang Chen
E-mail: phonixchen79@whut.edu.cn

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Wei-Kang Xu(许伟康), Feng-Xiang Chen(陈凤翔), Gong-Hui Cao(曹功辉), Jia-Qi Wang(王嘉绮), Li-Sheng Wang(汪礼胜) Factors influencing the performance of paintable carbon-based perovskite solar cells fabricated in ambient air 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 038402

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