Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume 2, Issue 40, Pages 17077-17084Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ta03387f
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- SPECIFIC (Sustainable Product Engineering Centre for Innovative Functional Industrial Coatings) - EPSRC [EP/K000292/1, EP/L010372/1]
- TSB
- TATA Steel
- Welsh Government
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/L010372/1, EP/K000292/1, EP/I019278/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I019278/1, EP/L010372/1, EP/K000292/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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High efficiency, solution processed organic inorganic trihalide perovskite solar cells are now a reality, meaning that perovskite photovoltaics have the potential to challenge more established photovoltaic technologies. To date, some of the most efficient solution processed perovskite solar cells feature a pre-deposited Al2O3 scaffold and we have shown in a previous communication, that it is possible to make efficient devices by co-depositing the Al2O3 nanoparticles with the perovskite precursor solution. In this work, we have substituted the alumina nanoparticles with 3-aminopropyl (3-oxobutanoic acid) functionalized silica nanoparticles (f-SiO2). We observe performance enhancements in planar heterojunction (PHJ) devices made with up to 0.75 wt% f-SiO2 nanoparticles present in the precursor solution, yielding power conversion efficiencies (PCE) of up to 12.4%, compared to the maximum PCE of 10.5% in the equivalent PHJ devices made without f-SiO2 nanoparticles. The performance enhancement arises in part from an average increase to V-OC by up to 50 mV when the nanoparticles are present in the precursor solution and is attributed to substrate passivation within pinholes formed in the perovskite film during processing.
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