Propeller-Shaped, Triarylamine-Rich, and Dopant-Free Hole-Transporting Materials for Efficient n-i-p Perovskite Solar Cells

Bin Bin Cui*, Ying Han, Ning Yang, Shuangshuang Yang, Liuzhu Zhang, Yue Wang, Yifei Jia, Lin Zhao, Yu Wu Zhong, Qi Chen

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Abstract

By introducing six triarylamine groups to a hexaphenylbenzene (HPB) or a hexakis(2-thienyl)benzene (HTB) core, two propeller-shaped, triarylamine-rich, and low-cost hole-transporting materials (HTMs), which are termed as HPB-OMe and HTB-OMe, respectively, with considerable hole mobility, were obtained by easy synthetic routes. Solid-state planar perovskite CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 solar cells (PSCs) with two new HTMs showed high power conversion efficiencies (12.9% for HPB-OMe and 17.3% for HTB-OMe in forward scans) under standard 100 mW cm -2 AM 1.5G illumination without doping. A comparison of matched-degree of energy levels, hole-transporting ability, photovoltaic conversion efficiencies, and recombination of the two HTMs indicated that developing multi-triarylamine- and thiophene-rich molecules provides candidate and efficient dopant-free HTMs for PSCs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)41592-41598
Number of pages7
JournalACS applied materials & interfaces
Volume10
Issue number48
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • free-dopant
  • perovskite solar cells
  • photovoltaic conversion
  • triarylamine-rich hole-transporting materials
  • π-π stacking

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