Highly crystalline Zn2SnO4 nanoparticles as efficient electron-transporting layers toward stable inverted and flexible conventional perovskite solar cells

Liu, Xiao; Chueh, Chu -Chen; Zhu, Zonglong; Jo, Sae Byeok; Sun, Ye; Jen, Alex K. -Y.

doi:10.1039/c6ta05745d

Title: Highly crystalline Zn₂SnO₄ nanoparticles as efficient electron-transporting layers toward stable inverted and flexible conventional perovskite solar cells

Journal Article · Wed Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Materials Chemistry. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ta05745d· OSTI ID:1343590

Liu, Xiao ^[1]; Chueh, Chu -Chen ^[2]; Zhu, Zonglong ^[2]; Jo, Sae Byeok ^[2]; Sun, Ye ^[3]; Jen, Alex K. -Y. ^[2]

Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States); Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China)

In this paper, we have successfully utilized a facile hydrothermal method to prepare crystalline Zn₂SnO₄ nanoparticles (ZSO NPs) and applied them as an efficient electron-transporting layer (ETL) via a simple room-temperature solution process for perovskite solar cells (PVSCs). The superior semiconducting properties of this ZSO-based ETL enable an efficient (PCE: 17.7%) inverted p–i–n PVSC to be fabricated with respectable ambient stability. It can retain over 90% of its original PCE after being stored under ambient conditions for 14 days under 30 ± 5% relative humidity. Moreover, it also facilitates the fabrication of efficient conventional n–i–p PVSCs with a PCE of –14.5% and –11.4% achieved on a glass/ITO rigid substrate and PEG/ITO flexible substrate, respectively.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Contributing Organization:: This work is supported by the Office of Naval Research (N00014- 14-1-0246), the National Science Foundation (DMR-1608279), the Asian Office of Aerospace R&D (FA2386-15-1-4106), and the Department of Energy SunShot (DE-EE 0006710). A. K.-Y. Jen thanks the Boeing–Johnson Foundation for their nancial support. X. Liu thanks the State-Sponsored Scholarship for Graduate Students from China Scholarship Council. The authors thank Nan Li for the contact angle measurements.

DOE Contract Number:: EE0006710

OSTI ID:: 1343590

Report Number(s):: DOE-UW-Jen-24; JMCAET

Journal Information:: Journal of Materials Chemistry. A, Vol. 4, Issue 40; ISSN 2050-7488

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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