Perovskite Solar Cells on Corrugated Substrates with Enhanced Efficiency
- 27 September 2016
- Vol. 12 (46), 6346-6352
- https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201601974
Abstract
Organometallic halide perovskites solar cells are fabricated on nano-scaled corrugated substrates using a sequential deposition method. The corrugated substrates are fabricated using colloidal lithography followed by reactive ion etching. The corrugated structure is found to accelerate the chemical reaction between the sequentially deposited lead iodide (PbI2) and methyl ammonium iodide layers to form stoichiometric perovskite films, and the corrugated morphology is preserved at the interface of the hole transport layer (HTL) and the perovskite layer. The shunt resistance of the corrugated devices is found to be higher than that of the planar devices, leading to a higher open circuit voltage (VOC) and fill factor (FF) in the corrugated devices. Finite-difference time-domain simulation is carried out on both planar and corrugated devices. The results revealed that light absorption is enhanced in the corrugated devices due to the corrugated HTL/perovskite interface, resulting in a significantly higher short circuit current (JSC) observed in the corrugated devices. As a result, the average power conversion efficiency increases from 8.7% for the planar devices to 13% for the corrugated devices.Keywords
Funding Information
- Office of Naval Research (N000141110245)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51575427)
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