Interfacial Connections between Organic Perovskite/n + Silicon/Catalyst that Allow Integration of Solar Cell and Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water
Abstract
The rapidly increasing solar conversion efficiency (PCE) of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (HOIP) thin-film semiconductors has triggered interest in their use for direct solar-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen. However, application of these low-cost, electronic-structure-tunable HOIP tandem photoabsorbers has been hindered by the instability of the photovoltaic-catalyst-electrolyte (PV+E) interfaces. Here, photolytic water splitting is demonstrated using an integrated configuration consisting of an HOIP/n+silicon single junction photoabsorber and a platinum (Pt) thin film catalyst. An extended electrochemical (EC) lifetime in alkaline media is achieved using titanium nitride on both sides of the Si support to eliminate formation of insulating silicon oxide, and as an effective diffusion barrier to allow high-temperature annealing of the catalyst/TiO2-protected-n+silicon interface necessary to retard electrolytic corrosion. Halide composition was examined in the (FA1-xCsx)PbI3 system with a bandgap suitable for tandem operation. A fill factor of 72.5% was achieved using a Spiro-OMeTAD-hole-transport-layer (HTL)-based HOIP/n+Si solar cell, and a high photocurrent density of -15.9 mA/cm-2 (at 0V vs reversible hydrogen electrode) was attained for the HOIP/n+Si/Pt photocathode in 1M NaOH under simulated one-sun illumination. While this thin-film design creates stable interfaces, the intrinsic photo- and electro-degradation of the HOIP photoabsorber remains the main obstacle for future HOIP/Si tandem PEC devices.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory 15013 Denver West Parkway Golden CO 80401 USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA, Department of Materials Science &, Engineering, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA, Waksman Institute, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Piscataway NJ 08854 USA
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- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1961920
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1963922; OSTI ID: 1986590; OSTI ID: 1995905
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-85411
Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X; 2301196
- Grant/Contract Number:
- DE‐EE0008083; DE‐AC36‐08GO28308; AC36-08GO28308; EE0008083
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Functional Materials Journal Volume: 33 Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 08 HYDROGEN; fill factor; hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite; hydrogen production; photocathode; photoelectrochemical water splitting; silicon; titanium nitride diffusion barrier
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Gu, Hengfei, Zhang, Fei, Hwang, Shinjae, Laursen, Anders B., Liu, Xin, Park, So Yeon, Yang, Mengjin, Bramante, Rosemary C., Hijazi, Hussein, Kasaei, Leila, Feldman, Leonard C., Yeh, Yao‐Wen, Batson, Philip E., Larson, Bryon W., Li, Mengjun, Li, Yifei, Wyatt, Keenan, Young, James L., Teeluck, Krishani, Zhu, Kai, Garfunkel, Eric, and Dismukes, G. Charles. Interfacial Connections between Organic Perovskite/n + Silicon/Catalyst that Allow Integration of Solar Cell and Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water. Germany: N. p., 2023.
Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.202301196.
Gu, Hengfei, Zhang, Fei, Hwang, Shinjae, Laursen, Anders B., Liu, Xin, Park, So Yeon, Yang, Mengjin, Bramante, Rosemary C., Hijazi, Hussein, Kasaei, Leila, Feldman, Leonard C., Yeh, Yao‐Wen, Batson, Philip E., Larson, Bryon W., Li, Mengjun, Li, Yifei, Wyatt, Keenan, Young, James L., Teeluck, Krishani, Zhu, Kai, Garfunkel, Eric, & Dismukes, G. Charles. Interfacial Connections between Organic Perovskite/n + Silicon/Catalyst that Allow Integration of Solar Cell and Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202301196
Gu, Hengfei, Zhang, Fei, Hwang, Shinjae, Laursen, Anders B., Liu, Xin, Park, So Yeon, Yang, Mengjin, Bramante, Rosemary C., Hijazi, Hussein, Kasaei, Leila, Feldman, Leonard C., Yeh, Yao‐Wen, Batson, Philip E., Larson, Bryon W., Li, Mengjun, Li, Yifei, Wyatt, Keenan, Young, James L., Teeluck, Krishani, Zhu, Kai, Garfunkel, Eric, and Dismukes, G. Charles. Wed .
"Interfacial Connections between Organic Perovskite/n + Silicon/Catalyst that Allow Integration of Solar Cell and Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202301196.
@article{osti_1961920,
title = {Interfacial Connections between Organic Perovskite/n + Silicon/Catalyst that Allow Integration of Solar Cell and Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution from Water},
author = {Gu, Hengfei and Zhang, Fei and Hwang, Shinjae and Laursen, Anders B. and Liu, Xin and Park, So Yeon and Yang, Mengjin and Bramante, Rosemary C. and Hijazi, Hussein and Kasaei, Leila and Feldman, Leonard C. and Yeh, Yao‐Wen and Batson, Philip E. and Larson, Bryon W. and Li, Mengjun and Li, Yifei and Wyatt, Keenan and Young, James L. and Teeluck, Krishani and Zhu, Kai and Garfunkel, Eric and Dismukes, G. Charles},
abstractNote = {The rapidly increasing solar conversion efficiency (PCE) of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (HOIP) thin-film semiconductors has triggered interest in their use for direct solar-driven water splitting to produce hydrogen. However, application of these low-cost, electronic-structure-tunable HOIP tandem photoabsorbers has been hindered by the instability of the photovoltaic-catalyst-electrolyte (PV+E) interfaces. Here, photolytic water splitting is demonstrated using an integrated configuration consisting of an HOIP/n+silicon single junction photoabsorber and a platinum (Pt) thin film catalyst. An extended electrochemical (EC) lifetime in alkaline media is achieved using titanium nitride on both sides of the Si support to eliminate formation of insulating silicon oxide, and as an effective diffusion barrier to allow high-temperature annealing of the catalyst/TiO2-protected-n+silicon interface necessary to retard electrolytic corrosion. Halide composition was examined in the (FA1-xCsx)PbI3 system with a bandgap suitable for tandem operation. A fill factor of 72.5% was achieved using a Spiro-OMeTAD-hole-transport-layer (HTL)-based HOIP/n+Si solar cell, and a high photocurrent density of -15.9 mA/cm-2 (at 0V vs reversible hydrogen electrode) was attained for the HOIP/n+Si/Pt photocathode in 1M NaOH under simulated one-sun illumination. While this thin-film design creates stable interfaces, the intrinsic photo- and electro-degradation of the HOIP photoabsorber remains the main obstacle for future HOIP/Si tandem PEC devices.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.202301196},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 25,
volume = 33,
place = {Germany},
year = {Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2023},
month = {Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2023}
}
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