Zinc Stannate Nanorod as an Electron Transporting Layer for Highly Efficient and Hysteresis-less Perovskite Solar Cells
Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Daniel Prochowicz, Pankaj Yadav, Rouhollah Tavakoli and Michael Saliba
Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli1,2,Email
Daniel Prochowicz3
Pankaj Yadav4
Rouhollah Tavakoli1
Michael Saliba5
1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 14588, Iran
2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
3 Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw, 01-224, Poland
4 Department of Solar Energy, School of Technology, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382007, India
5Adolphe Merkle Institute, Chemins des Verdiers 4, Fribourg, CH-1700, Switzerland
Abstract
Careful engineering of the electron transfer layer (ETL) is a promising approach to improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). In this study, we demonstrate the potential of using zinc stannate (Zn2SnO4, or ZSO from here) as ETL for the fabrication of highly efficient PSCs. ZSO was deposited on top of FTO glass as thin films and nanorod arrays using ultrasonic spray pyrolysis (USP) technique. Optical characterizations reveal that perovskite films deposited on such nanorod arrays of ZSO have a lower transmittance exhibiting better charge extraction properties compared to the planar ZSO thin films. The best ZSO-based device reached a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.24% and a high current density of 23.8 mA/cm2. Moreover, these devices showed a lower hysteresis index in compared to the ZSO planar based devices.
Publication details
Received: 14 Jul 2018
Revised: 03 Aug 2018
Accepted: 06 Aug 2018
Published online: 08 Aug 2018
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Communication
DOI:
10.30919/es8d749
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3
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48-53
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Engineered Science, 2018, 3, 48-53
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Zinc stannate nanorod array as an electron transfer layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cell improv....
Zinc stannate nanorod array as an electron transfer layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cell improves the charge extraction as well as efficiency and reduces the hysteresis.
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