Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Spiro-Phenothiazine Based Hole-Transporting Materials for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
 
research article

Spiro-Phenothiazine Based Hole-Transporting Materials for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mora, Javier Urieta
•
Jeong, Jaeki
•
García‐Benito, Inés
Show more
July 11, 2025
ECS Meeting Abstracts

Perovskites solar cells (PSCs) have emerged, since 2009, as the most promising technology to replace/complement crystalline silicon PV.[1] Outstanding results of PCE up to 26.7 % have been obtained using perovskites (eg. MAPbI3) in just a few years of research. The continuous improvement of the efficiency in PSCs has been achieved using commercially available spiro-OMeTAD as hole-transporting material (HTM). However, spiro-OMeTAD is an expensive material due to its difficult purification and multi-step synthetic protocols (in harsh conditions) which limits its future use in large-scale applications. As a consequence, great efforts in the synthesis and characterization of alternative organic low-cost molecules for its application as HTMs have been reported in the recent years, including PAH-based, spiro-containing or dopant-free materials.[2] Our research group reported two doped-HTMs based on electron-rich spiranic scaffolds, namely, spiro-POZ and spiro-PTZ which exhibit a similar performance of the reference material and improved long-term stability (more than 300 days of exposure to ambient conditions and more than 1200 h under continuous 1 sun illumination) in sharp contrast with the reference of spiro-OMeTAD.[3] Motivated by these excellent results, we have designed four new derivatives based on spiro-PTZ functionalized with asymmetric diphenylamine units that have been incorporated in PSCs improving the PCE of the devices up to 25.75%, surpassing clearly the power conversion efficiency and stability of spiro-OMeTAD. Furthermore, large area mini module (25 cm2) also shows an outstanding PCE above 22%, pointing spiro-PTZ derivatives as one of the most efficient HTMs reported in bibliography. References [1] A. Kojima, K. Teshima, Y. Shirai, T. Miyasaka, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6050-6051. [2] J. Urieta-Mora, I. García-Benito, A. Molina-Ontoria, N. Martín, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2018, 47, 8541-8571. [3] J. Urieta-Mora, I. García-Benito, L.-A. Illicachi, J. Calbo, J. Aragó, A. Molina-Ontoria, E. Ortí, N. Martín, M. K. Nazeeruddin, Sol. RRL 2021, 5, 2100650. Figure 1

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1149/ma2025-01161176mtgabs
Author(s)
Mora, Javier Urieta
Jeong, Jaeki
García‐Benito, Inés
Escribano, Manuel Perez
Calbo, Joaquín
Molina‐Ontoria, Agustín
Ortı́, Enrique
Zakeeruddin, M.
Gräetzel, Michael  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Martı́n, Nazario
Date Issued

2025-07-11

Publisher

The Electrochemical Society

Published in
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Volume

MA2025-01

Issue

16

Start page

1176

End page

1176

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

EPFL

EPFL units
LPI  
Available on Infoscience
January 21, 2026
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/258350
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés