Polymer Hole Transport Material Functional Group Tuning for Improved Perovskite Solar Cell Performance
Abstract
As lead halide perovskites (LHPs) continue to achieve success as a light-harvesting material in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), exploring and understanding other materials in the device stack become increasingly important. Particularly, selection of suitable hole transport materials (HTMs) that demonstrate high performance and stability is imperative in the design of P-I-N PSCs. Presented here are a family of 12 structurally related polymers based on either fluorene or carbazole main chains with select aromatic side groups that introduce tunable properties for use in PSCs. How properties such as the highest occupied molecular orbital energy level, conductivity, glass-transition temperature, and wettability of the HTM affect the PSC performance is explored. Devices that incorporate the polymer HTMs perform well relative to PTAA in benchmark P-I-N PSC architectures while exhibiting similar or superior stability under accelerated aging studies. The relative synthetic simplicity and resultant performance of the HTMs in PSCs coupled with the ability to customize properties with different functional groups demonstrates the potential of this family of HTMs for a variety of LHP materials.
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- 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); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1877362
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1896711
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-83260
Journal ID: ISSN 2574-0962; MainId:84033;UUID:b5e01f46-a3b1-4bd0-a8e6-1f74edf3af0e;MainAdminID:64895
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308; EE0008978
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 2574-0962
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; Buchwald-Hartwig coupling; carbazole; device stability; fluorene; hole transport materials; perovskite solar cells; polymers; tunable HOMO
Citation Formats
Hoffman, Jacob B., Astridge, Daniel D., Park, So Yeon, Zhang, Fei, Yang, Mengjin, Moore, David T., Harvey, Steven P., Zhu, Kai, and Sellinger, Alan. Polymer Hole Transport Material Functional Group Tuning for Improved Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsaem.2c01057.
Hoffman, Jacob B., Astridge, Daniel D., Park, So Yeon, Zhang, Fei, Yang, Mengjin, Moore, David T., Harvey, Steven P., Zhu, Kai, & Sellinger, Alan. Polymer Hole Transport Material Functional Group Tuning for Improved Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01057
Hoffman, Jacob B., Astridge, Daniel D., Park, So Yeon, Zhang, Fei, Yang, Mengjin, Moore, David T., Harvey, Steven P., Zhu, Kai, and Sellinger, Alan. Tue .
"Polymer Hole Transport Material Functional Group Tuning for Improved Perovskite Solar Cell Performance". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01057. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1877362.
@article{osti_1877362,
title = {Polymer Hole Transport Material Functional Group Tuning for Improved Perovskite Solar Cell Performance},
author = {Hoffman, Jacob B. and Astridge, Daniel D. and Park, So Yeon and Zhang, Fei and Yang, Mengjin and Moore, David T. and Harvey, Steven P. and Zhu, Kai and Sellinger, Alan},
abstractNote = {As lead halide perovskites (LHPs) continue to achieve success as a light-harvesting material in perovskite solar cells (PSCs), exploring and understanding other materials in the device stack become increasingly important. Particularly, selection of suitable hole transport materials (HTMs) that demonstrate high performance and stability is imperative in the design of P-I-N PSCs. Presented here are a family of 12 structurally related polymers based on either fluorene or carbazole main chains with select aromatic side groups that introduce tunable properties for use in PSCs. How properties such as the highest occupied molecular orbital energy level, conductivity, glass-transition temperature, and wettability of the HTM affect the PSC performance is explored. Devices that incorporate the polymer HTMs perform well relative to PTAA in benchmark P-I-N PSC architectures while exhibiting similar or superior stability under accelerated aging studies. The relative synthetic simplicity and resultant performance of the HTMs in PSCs coupled with the ability to customize properties with different functional groups demonstrates the potential of this family of HTMs for a variety of LHP materials.},
doi = {10.1021/acsaem.2c01057},
journal = {ACS Applied Energy Materials},
number = 7,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue Jul 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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