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Toward an alternative approach for the preparation of low-temperature titanium dioxide blocking underlayers for perovskite solar cells

Aung, Su Htike
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Zhao, Lichen  
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Nonomura, Kazuteru  
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May 7, 2019
Journal of Materials Chemistry A

The anodic electrodeposition method is investigated as an alternative technique for the preparation of a titanium oxide (TiO2) blocking underlayer (UL) for perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Extremely thin Ti-IV-based films are grown from aqueous acidic titanium(III) chloride in an electrochemical cell at room temperature. This precursor layer is converted to the UL (ED-UL), in a suitable state for PSC applications, by undertaking a sintering step at 450 degrees C for half an hour. PSCs with the composition of the light-absorbing material FA(0.85)MA(0.10)Cs(0.05)Pb(I0.87Br0.13)(3) (FA and MA denote the formamidinium and methylammonium cations, respectively) based on the ED-UL are compared with PSCs with the UL of a standard type prepared by the spray-pyrolysis method at 450 degrees C from titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) (SP-UL). We obtain power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of over 20% for mesoscopic perovskite devices employing both ED-ULs and SP-ULs. Slightly higher fill factor values are observed for ED-UL-based devices. In addition, ED-ULs prepared by the same method have also been applied in planar PSCs, resulting in a PCE exceeding 17%, which is comparable to that for similar PSCs with an SP-UL. The preparation of ED-ULs with a lower sintering temperature, 150 degrees C, has also been examined. The efficiency of a planar PSC incorporating this underlayer was 14%. These results point out to the possibility of applying ED-ULs in flexible planar PSCs in the future.

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research article
DOI
10.1039/c8ta04246b
Web of Science ID

WOS:000472183200061

Author(s)
Aung, Su Htike
Zhao, Lichen  
Nonomura, Kazuteru  
Oo, Than Zaw
Zakeeruddin, Shaik M.  
Vlachopoulos, Nick  
Sloboda, Tamara
Svanstroem, Sebastian
Cappel, Ute B.
Hagfeldt, Anders  
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Date Issued

2019-05-07

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Published in
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume

7

Issue

17

Start page

10729

End page

10738

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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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science

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efficient

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electrodeposition

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films

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July 4, 2019
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