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The Role of Oxygen Exposure on the Performance of All-Vapor-Processed Perovskite Solar Cells With CuPC Hole Transport Layers

Kuba, Austin  
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Du, Bin
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Harding, Alexander J.
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August 15, 2024
IEEE Journal Of Photovoltaics

Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells were made using an all-vapor process, including two-step close space vapor transport-processed MAPbI(3) absorber and evaporated copper phthalocyanine (CuPC) hole transport layer (HTL). N-i-p solar cells fabricated entirely in a nitrogen glovebox had poor performance due to s-shaped J-V curves and fill factors (FF) $< $45%. Solar cells exposed to dry air in a desiccator for seven days, or to O-2 flowed into the evaporator during CuPC deposition, had significantly improved performance with reduced or eliminated s-shaped behavior and improved FF up to 72%. Co-planar conductivity measurements show that exposure to dry air, deposition with oxygen, and MoOx capping layers all increase the conductivity of the CuPC HTL. Drift-diffusion simulations show that increasing hole concentration consistent with oxygen doping effects can explain the J-V behavior of the solar cell. Solar cells using spiro-OMeTAD HTLs achieved similar Power Conversion Efficiency but higher V-oc up to 1.01 V. Drift-diffusion simulations show that the V-oc difference can be explained by differences in doping density and valence band position between spiro and CuPC.

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DOI
10.1109/JPHOTOV.2024.3414125
Web of Science ID

WOS:001292785500001

Author(s)
Kuba, Austin  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Du, Bin

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Harding, Alexander J.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dobson, Kevin D.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

McCandless, Brian E.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Das, Ujjwal K.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Shafarman, William N.

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2024-08-15

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
IEEE Journal Of Photovoltaics
Issue

5

Start page

758

End page

764

Subjects

Photovoltaic cells

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Perovskites

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Doping

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Semiconductor process modeling

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Temperature measurement

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Performance evaluation

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Photovoltaic systems

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Close space vapor transport (CSVT)

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copper phthalocyanine

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copper phthalocyanine (CuPC)

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hole transport layer (HTL)

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oxygen

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perovskite solar cell (PSC)

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thermal evaporation

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vapor processing

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REVIEWED

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PV-LAB  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

National Science Foundation (NSF)

United States Department of Energy (DOE)

EEC-1041895

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January 30, 2025
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