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Title: Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells

Abstract

We demonstrated the efficiency of a solution-processed planar heterojunction organometallic trihalide perovskite solar cell can be increased to 17.5% through doping the hole transporting layer for reducing the resistivity. Doped Poly(triaryl amine) (PTAA) by 2,3,5,6-Tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ) reduced device series resistance by three-folds, increasing the device fill factor to 74%, open circuit voltage to 1.09 V without sacrificing the short circuit current. As a result, this study reveals that the high resistivity of currently broadly applied polymer hole transport layer limits the device efficiency, and points a new direction to improve the device efficiency.

Authors:
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  1. Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1238033
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1251825
Grant/Contract Number:  
EE0006709
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2211-2855
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; organolead trihalide perovskite; photovoltaic; hole transport layer; doping

Citation Formats

Wang, Qi, Bi, Cheng, and Huang, Jinsong. Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.04.029.
Wang, Qi, Bi, Cheng, & Huang, Jinsong. Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.04.029
Wang, Qi, Bi, Cheng, and Huang, Jinsong. Wed . "Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.04.029. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1238033.
@article{osti_1238033,
title = {Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells},
author = {Wang, Qi and Bi, Cheng and Huang, Jinsong},
abstractNote = {We demonstrated the efficiency of a solution-processed planar heterojunction organometallic trihalide perovskite solar cell can be increased to 17.5% through doping the hole transporting layer for reducing the resistivity. Doped Poly(triaryl amine) (PTAA) by 2,3,5,6-Tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ) reduced device series resistance by three-folds, increasing the device fill factor to 74%, open circuit voltage to 1.09 V without sacrificing the short circuit current. As a result, this study reveals that the high resistivity of currently broadly applied polymer hole transport layer limits the device efficiency, and points a new direction to improve the device efficiency.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.04.029},
journal = {Nano Energy},
number = C,
volume = 15,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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