Multilayer Cascade Charge Transport Layer for High-Performance Inverted Mesoscopic All-Inorganic and Hybrid Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Yu Chen
  • , Weijian Tang
  • , Yihui Wu*
  • , Ruihan Yuan
  • , Jianchao Yang
  • , Wenjuan Shan
  • , Shengli Zhang*
  • , Wen Hua Zhang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

It is imperative to improve the quality of light absorber and reduce the charge-carrier recombination for efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, a synergistic regulation strategy that combines the tailoring of crystallinity and construction of multilayer cascade charge transport layers (CTLs) for inverted CsPbI2Br solar cells is presented. The film quality of CsPbI2Br is well tuned via F doping. In addition, gradient energy alignment between perovskite and CTLs, i.e., NiOx/Zn:CuGaO2/perovskite and perovskite/TiO2/PC61BM/ZnO, favors the charge transfer and depresses carrier recombination. Noticeably, the TiO2 interlayer with deep valence band maximum effectively blocks the hole back-transfer from perovskite to PC61BM. These unique characteristics of the novel structured CsPbI2Br device give a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.10% along with good thermal and operational stability. Moreover, the graded CTLs can be expanded to methylammonium-free hybrid perovskite device (Eg = ≈1.76 eV) by delivering a PCE of 18.12%, showing great promise in tandem solar cells for use as top cell.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2000344
JournalSolar RRL
Volume4
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • charge transport layers
  • charge-carrier transfer
  • crystallization tailoring
  • energy alignment
  • perovskite solar cells

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