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Title: Acid additives enhancing the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD toward high-efficiency and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cells

Abstract

A general doping strategy, using a wide range of acids with different pKa values as additive, is demonstrated to enhance the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD, the dominant hole transport material in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, hysteresis-less planar PSCs with ≈19% efficiency and better open-circuit voltage and fill factor is achieved with acid doped spiro-OMeTAD.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [1]
  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
  3. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
OSTI Identifier:
1345355
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1401245
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5900-66721
Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308; DE‐AC36‐08‐GO28308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Energy Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; acids; doping; hole transport layer; perovskite solar cells

Citation Formats

Li, Zhen, Tinkham, Jonathan, Schulz, Philip, Yang, Mengjin, Kim, Dong Hoe, Berry, Joseph, Sellinger, Alan, and Zhu, Kai. Acid additives enhancing the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD toward high-efficiency and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cells. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201601451.
Li, Zhen, Tinkham, Jonathan, Schulz, Philip, Yang, Mengjin, Kim, Dong Hoe, Berry, Joseph, Sellinger, Alan, & Zhu, Kai. Acid additives enhancing the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD toward high-efficiency and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201601451
Li, Zhen, Tinkham, Jonathan, Schulz, Philip, Yang, Mengjin, Kim, Dong Hoe, Berry, Joseph, Sellinger, Alan, and Zhu, Kai. Fri . "Acid additives enhancing the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD toward high-efficiency and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201601451. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1345355.
@article{osti_1345355,
title = {Acid additives enhancing the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD toward high-efficiency and hysteresis-less planar perovskite solar cells},
author = {Li, Zhen and Tinkham, Jonathan and Schulz, Philip and Yang, Mengjin and Kim, Dong Hoe and Berry, Joseph and Sellinger, Alan and Zhu, Kai},
abstractNote = {A general doping strategy, using a wide range of acids with different pKa values as additive, is demonstrated to enhance the conductivity of spiro-OMeTAD, the dominant hole transport material in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here, hysteresis-less planar PSCs with ≈19% efficiency and better open-circuit voltage and fill factor is achieved with acid doped spiro-OMeTAD.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201601451},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 4,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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