Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14195843
Keywords
perovskite solar cells; 2D materials; interface engineering; hot carriers; additives; crystallization; work function tuning
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- Dottorati FSE XXXVI ciclo Unime [CIP 2014.IT.05.SFOP. 014/3/10.5/9.2.10/0002 CUP G47C20000190002]
- European Union [881603]
- PRIN [20179337R7]
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The efficiency of perovskite solar cells has significantly improved over the past decade, especially through the introduction of 2D materials which can enhance their performance. 2D materials can accelerate hot carrier transfer, improve perovskite layer crystallization, and optimize electronic band alignment.
The last decade has witnessed the advance of metal halide perovskites as a promising low-cost and efficient class of light harvesters used in solar cells (SCs). Remarkably, the efficiency of lab-scale perovskite solar cells (PSCs) reached a power conversion efficiency of 25.5% in just similar to 10 years of research, rivalling the current record of 26.1% for Si-based PVs. To further boost the performances of PSCs, the use of 2D materials (such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides and transition metal carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides) has been proposed, thanks to their remarkable optoelectronic properties (that can be tuned with proper chemical composition engineering) and chemical stability. In particular, 2D materials have been demonstrated as promising candidates for (i) accelerating hot carrier transfer across the interfaces between the perovskite and the charge extraction layers; (ii) improving the crystallization of the perovskite layers (when used as additives in the precursor solution); (iii) favoring electronic bands alignment through tuning of the work function. In this mini-review, we discuss the physical mechanisms underlying the increased efficiency of 2D material-based PSCs, focusing on the three aforementioned effects.
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