Numerical study of highly efficient tin-based perovskite solar cell with MoS2 hole transport layer
- 31 August 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH in Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A
- Vol. 76 (11), 1045-1059
- https://doi.org/10.1515/zna-2021-0063
Abstract
The present work investigates a tin-based highly efficient perovskite solar cell (PSC) by a solar cell capacitance simulator in one dimension. Molybdenum disulfide is introduced as hole transport layer in the proposed solar cell device structure. The photovoltaic performances of the proposed solar cell are investigated by varying thickness, doping concentration, and bulk defect density of various layers. Furthermore, the operating temperature and the series and shunt resistances are analyzed systematically. A higher conversion efficiency of 25.99% is obtained at the absorber thickness of 2000 nm. The optimum doping density of 10 17 cm −3 is estimated for the absorber, electron transport layer (ETL), and hole transport layer (HTL), respectively. The optimum thicknesses of 50 nm, 1000 nm, and 60 nm are also found for the titanium dioxide as ETL, methylammonium tin triiodide (CH 3 NH 3 SnI 3 ) as absorber layer, and molybdenum disulfide as HTL, respectively. The efficiency of the proposed lead-free CH 3 NH 3 SnI 3 -based solar cell with the alternative molybdenum disulfide HTL is calculated to be 24.65% with open-circuit voltage of 0.89 V, short-circuit current density of 34.04 mA/cm 2 , and fill-factor of 81.46% for the optimum parameters of all layers. These findings would contribute to fabricate low-cost, non-toxic, stable, and durable lead-free PSCs for the next generation.Keywords
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