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SOLAR ENERGY
Volume 217, Issue -, Pages 40-48Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.01.058
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Perovskite solar cell; SCAPS 1D; Sn based perovskite material
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Perovskite materials are essential in the photovoltaic industry due to their outstanding properties. This study simulated the performance of lead-free MASnI(3) perovskite solar cells with various materials, and found that the Glass/FTO/PCBM/MASnI(3)/CuI/Au configuration exhibited the highest efficiency of 25.05%, while two other configurations achieved 24.94% efficiency.
Perovskite materials can be considered as the backbone of photovoltaic industry owing to their remarkable electronic, optical, mechanical and electrical properties. In this work, the performance of lead-free methyl ammonium tin iodide (MASnI(3)) based perovskite solar cells with TiO2, PCBM, ZnO, C60, SnO2 and IGZO as Electron Transport Materials (ETMs), Cu2O, CuSCN, CuSbS2, P3HT, PEDOT: PSS, NiO, CuO, CuI and SpiroMeOTAD as Hole Transport Materials (HTMs) and Au, W, Ni, Pd, Pt, Se, Ag, Cu, C and Fe as back contact metals is simulated using SCAPS 1D software package. The thickness, total defect density, shallow uniform acceptor density, valence band effective density and conduction band effective density of the absorber layer (MASnI(3)) are varied for each of the various possible layer configurations with the above mentioned ETMs, HTMs and back contact metals. After analysing various solar cell configurations, it is seen that Glass/FTO/PCBM/ MASnI(3)/CuI/Au exhibits optimum performance with a Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE) of 25.05%, Fill Factor (FF) of 69.23%, a short circuit current density (JSC) of 34.26863 mA/cm(2) and an open circuit voltage (VOC) of 1.0557 V. The solar cell configurations Glass/FTO/IGZO/MASnI(3)/CuSbS2/W and Glass/FTO/PCBM/MASnI(3)/SpiroMeOTAD/Pd have a PCE of 24.94% each. The study on thermal stability shows that these device configurations are stable at 300 K.
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