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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 27, Issue 22, Pages 31144-31163Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.27.031144
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- General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) (RESEARCH - CREATE - INNOVATE) [T1EDK-01082]
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Solution-processed, lead halide-based perovskite solar cells have recently overcome important challenges, offering low-cost and high solar power conversion efficiencies. However, they still undergo unoptimized light collection due mainly to the thin (similar to 350 nm) polycrystalline absorber layers. Moreover, their high toxicity (due to the presence of lead in perovskite crystalline structures) makes it necessary that the thickness of the absorber layers to be further reduced. Here we address these issues via embedding spherical plasmonic nanoparticles of various sizes, composition, concentrations, and vertical positions, in realistic halide-based perovskite solar cells. We theoretically show that plasmon-enhanced near-field effects and scattering leads to a device photocurrent enhancement up to similar to 7.3% when silver spheres are embedded inside the perovskite layer. An even further enhancement, up to similar to 12%, is achieved with the combination of silver spheres in perovskite and aluminum spheres inside the hole transporting layer (PEDOTPSS). The proper involvement of nanoparticles allows the employment of much thinner perovskite layers (up to 150 nm), reducing thus significantly the toxicity. Providing the requirements related to the design parameters of nanoparticles, our study establishes guidelines for a future development of highly-efficient, environmentally friendly and low-cost plasmonic perovskite solar cells. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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