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Novel p-dopant toward highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells

Seo, Ji-Youn  
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Kim, Hui-Seon  
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Akin, Seckin
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October 1, 2018
Energy & Environmental Science

Li-TFSI is the most common p-dopant for the hole conductor spiro-MeOTAD in the normal structure (n-i-p) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), which consistently yield the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) albeit at the risk of lower long-term operational stability. Here we successfully replace conventional Li-TFSI with Zn-TFSI2, which not only acts as a highly effective p-dopant but also enhances considerably both the photovoltaic performance and long-term stability. The incorporation of Zn-TFSI2 as a dopant for spiro-MeOTAD leads to an increase by one order in the hole mobility compared to Li-TFSI from 3.78 x 10(-3) cm(2) V-1 s(-1) to 3.83 x 10(-2) cm(2) V-1 s(-1). Furthermore, the device with Zn-TFSI2 showed an 80 mV higher built-in voltage and a bigger recombination resistance than the one with Li-TFSI, which were responsible for the striking increase in both the open-circuit voltage and fill factor, leading to a stabilized PCE of 22.0% for the best cells. Remarkably, the device employing Zn-TFSI2 demonstrated superb photo-stability, showing even a 2% increase in the PCE after 600 h light soaking at the maximum power point (mpp) under full sun, while the PCE of the device with Li-TFSI decreased by 20% under the same conditions. Similarly, the device with Zn-TFSI2 showed better operational stability at 50 degrees C resulting in a 21% decrease in the PCE after 100 h aging at the mpp under full sun while the Li-TFSI based one showed a 55% decrease. Moreover, the Zn-TFSI2 based device was capable of effectively resisting humidity compared to the one based on Li-TFSI from shelf stability monitoring (R.H. 40%) in the dark.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c8ee01500g
Web of Science ID

WOS:000448339100022

Author(s)
Seo, Ji-Youn  
Kim, Hui-Seon  
Akin, Seckin
Stojanovic, Marko
Simon, Elfriede
Fleischer, Maximilian
Hagfeldt, Anders  
Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.  
Graetzel, Michael  
Date Issued

2018-10-01

Publisher

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY

Published in
Energy & Environmental Science
Volume

11

Issue

10

Start page

2985

End page

2992

Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Energy & Fuels

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Engineering, Chemical

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Environmental Sciences

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Chemistry

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Energy & Fuels

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Engineering

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Environmental Sciences & Ecology

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lead iodide perovskite

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energy-level shifts

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spiro-ometad

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selective contacts

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organic semiconductors

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thermal-stability

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lithium-salts

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ion migration

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transport

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impact

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December 13, 2018
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