Formamidinium-based planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells with alkali carbonate-doped zinc oxide layer |
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| Authors: | Jaeki Jeong Haeyeon Kim Yung Jin Yoon Bright Walker Seyeong Song Jungwoo Heo Song Yi Park Jae Won Kim Gi-Hwan Kim Jin Young Kim |
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| Affiliation: | Perovtronics Research Center, Department of Energy Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919 South Korea.; Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan 44919 South Korea ; Department of Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447 Republic of Korea |
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| Abstract: | We herein demonstrate n-i-p-type planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells employing spin-coated ZnO nanoparticles modified with various alkali metal carbonates including Li2CO3, Na2CO3, K2CO3 and Cs2CO3, which can tune the energy band structure of ZnO ETLs. Since these metal carbonates doped on ZnO ETLs lead to deeper conduction bands in the ZnO ETLs, electrons are easily transported from the perovskite active layer to the cathode electrode. The power conversion efficiency of about 27% is improved due to the incorporation of alkali carbonates in ETLs. As alternatives to TiO2 and n-type metal oxides, electron transport materials consisting of doped ZnO nanoparticles are viable ETLs for efficient n-i-p planar heterojunction solar cells, and they can be used on flexible substrates via roll-to-roll processing.Planar formamidinium perovskite solar cells have been fabricated with an alkali carbonate-doped zinc oxide layer. |
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