One-step facile synthesis of a simple carbazole-cored hole transport material for high-performance perovskite solar cells

Xinxing Yin; Lei Guan; Jiangsheng Yu; Dewei Zhao; Changlei Wang; Niraj Shrestha; Yingbin Han; Qiaoshi An; Jie Zhou; Baojing Zhou; Yue Yu; Corey R. Grice; Rasha Abbas Awni; Fujun Zhang; Jianbo Wang; Randy J. Ellingson; Yanfa Yan; Weihua Tang

doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.08.016

One-step facile synthesis of a simple carbazole-cored hole transport material for high-performance perovskite solar cells

Xinxing Yin, Lei Guan, Jiangsheng Yu, Dewei Zhao, Changlei Wang, Niraj Shrestha, Yingbin Han, Qiaoshi An, Jie Zhou, Baojing Zhou, Yue Yu, Corey R. Grice, Rasha Abbas Awni, Fujun Zhang, Jianbo Wang, Randy J. Ellingson, Yanfa Yan^*, Weihua Tang

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Abstract

A carbazole-based hole-transporting material named 4,4′,4′′,4′′′-(9-octylcarbazole-1,3,6,8-tetrayl) tetrakis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline) (CZ-TA) has been developed through a one-step facile synthesis approach. The solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with 50 nm thick CZ-TA hole selective layer (HSL) contributes a power conversion efficiency of 18.32%, comparable to the most commonly used 200 nm spiro-OMeTAD (18.28%) HSLs. The improved hole extraction, transport and reduced recombination are found to endow CZ-TA-based devices with impressive fill factors over 81.0%. Importantly, the unit cost of HSL in PVSCs using CZ-TA can be as low as only 1/80 of that of spiro-OMeTAD, indicating that CZ-TA could be a promising candidate as HSLs for commercialization of the low-cost PVSC technology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	163-169
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nano Energy
Volume	40
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.08.016
Publication status	Published - Oct 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Carbazole
Hole selective layer
Hole transport material
Perovskite solar cell
Power conversion efficiency

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Yin, X., Guan, L., Yu, J., Zhao, D., Wang, C., Shrestha, N., Han, Y., An, Q., Zhou, J., Zhou, B., Yu, Y., Grice, C. R., Awni, R. A., Zhang, F., Wang, J., Ellingson, R. J., Yan, Y., & Tang, W. (2017). One-step facile synthesis of a simple carbazole-cored hole transport material for high-performance perovskite solar cells. Nano Energy, 40, 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.08.016

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One-step facile synthesis of a simple carbazole-cored hole transport material for high-performance perovskite solar cells

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