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One plus one greater than two: high-performance inverted planar perovskite solar cells based on a composite CuI/CuSCN hole-transporting layer

Wang, Haoxin
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Yu, Ze  
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Lai, Jianbo
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November 21, 2018
Journal of Materials Chemistry A

The low-cost and stable inorganic p-type semiconductor copper(i) iodide (CuI) is a promising hole-transporting layer (HTL) material for inverted planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of inverted planar PSCs based on CuI HTLs reported so far are not satisfactory and far behind those of their organic counterparts. Herein, we demonstrate a simple but effective approach to improve the performance of inverted planar PSCs based on the CuI HTL through the incorporation of copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) into the CuI HTL. As compared to pristine CuI, the introduction of CuSCN significantly improves the quality of the film, resulting in a smooth and uniform film while maintaining relatively high electrical conductivity. As a consequence, the champion device based on the composite CuI/CuSCN HTL affords an impressive PCE of 18.76% under full sun illumination (100 mW cm(-2), AM 1.5G), which is substantially higher than the corresponding values of the respective devices containing pristine CuI (14.53%) and CuSCN (16.66%). This value is one of the highest efficiencies reported thus far for CuI- and CuSCN-based HTLs in PSCs. This work demonstrates the great potential of low-temperature solution-processed CuI/CuSCN composites as hole-selective layers for low-cost and efficient PSCs as well as other optoelectronic devices.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c8ta07332e
Web of Science ID

WOS:000449701900021

Author(s)
Wang, Haoxin
Yu, Ze  
Lai, Jianbo
Song, Xinkai
Yang, Xichuan
Hagfeldt, Anders  
Sun, Licheng
Date Issued

2018-11-21

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Published in
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume

6

Issue

43

Start page

21435

End page

21444

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Materials Science

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organometal halide perovskites

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processed copper iodide

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room-temperature

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efficient

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growth

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film

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deposition

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