Inverted planer perovskite solar cells fabricated by all vapor phase process

A simple vapor-based fabrication process for perovskite solar cells is developed and applied to the fabrication of inverted planar CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells. In this process, PbI2 film is deposited by vacuum evaporation on the hole transport layer (HTL), followed by converting it into the MAPbI(3) phase by annealing in methylammonium iodide (MAI) vapor. Using the converted MAPbI(3) films, we fabricated inverted planar perovskite solar cells by vapor phase-based process with a device structure of glass/TCO/HTL/MAPbI(3)/C-60/BCP/Ag, in which PEDOT:PSS and copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) were used as an HTL. A power conversion efficiency as high as 16.1% was obtained for the solar cell using CuPc as an HTL by a fully vapor-based process. Furthermore, we observed the improvement of the stability of the solar cells when using CuPc instead of PEDOT:PSS as an HTL.

Automated summary

A simple vapor-based fabrication process was developed for perovskite solar cells, yielding an efficiency of 16.1% with CuPc as the hole transport layer. The stability of the solar cells was observed to improve when using CuPc instead of PEDOT:PSS as the hole transport layer.