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Low-temperature easy-processed carbon nanotube contact for high-performance metal- and hole-transporting layer-free perovskite solar cells
- Source :
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry. 332:265-272
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Expensive and energy-consuming vacuum process of metal deposition with ambient-unstable hole transporters are incompatible with large-scale and low-cost production of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and thus hampers their commercialization. For the first time, we demonstrate cost-effective novel carbon nanotube (CNT) paste that was applied to FTO substrate by the facile doctor blade method and processed at low temperature (100 °C). Herein we report a new method of cost-efficient perovskite solar cells with the use of conventional hole transporters by directly clamping a selective hole extraction electrode made of CNT and a TiO 2 /perovskite photoanode. Most importantly, under optimized conditions in the absence of an organic hole-transporting material and metal contact, CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 and CNTs formed a solar cell with an efficiency of up to 7.83%. The PSC devices are fabricated in air without high-vacuum deposition which simplifies the processing and lowers the threshold of both scientific research and industrial production of PSCs. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy demonstrates good charge transport characteristics of CEs on the photovoltaic performance of devices. The PSCs exhibited good stability over 50 h. The abundance, low cost, and excellent properties of the CNT material offer wide prospects for further applications in PSCs.
- Subjects :
- Chemistry
business.industry
General Chemical Engineering
Photovoltaic system
General Physics and Astronomy
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
General Chemistry
Substrate (electronics)
Carbon nanotube
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Dielectric spectroscopy
law.invention
law
Solar cell
Electrode
Optoelectronics
0210 nano-technology
business
Layer (electronics)
Perovskite (structure)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10106030
- Volume :
- 332
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1e6a5d6dbdd1c7f2a1af3adfe888ffce