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:
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- 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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