Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 163-169Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.08.016
Keywords
Perovskite solar cell; Hole transport material; Carbazole; Hole selective layer; Power conversion efficiency
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51573077]
- Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [BK20130032]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-12-0633]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) SunShot Initiative under the Next Generation Photovoltaics 3 program [DE-FOA-0000990]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1230246, DMR-1534686]
- Ohio Research Scholar Program
- University of Toledo
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A carbazole-based hole-transporting material named 4,4',4'',4'-(9-octylcarbazole-1,3,6,8-tetrayl) tetrakis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl) aniline) (CZ-TA) has been developed through a one-step facile synthesis approach. The solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with 50 nm thick CZ-TA hole selective layer (HSL) contributes a power conversion efficiency of 18.32%, comparable to the most commonly used 200 nm spiro-OMeTAD (18.28%) HSLs. The improved hole extraction, transport and reduced recombination are found to endow CZ-TA-based devices with impressive fill factors over 81.0%. Importantly, the unit cost of HSL in PVSCs using CZ-TA can be as low as only 1/80 of that of spiro-OMeTAD, indicating that CZ-TA could be a promising candidate as HSLs for commercialization of the low-cost PVSC technology.
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