Comparison of the photovoltaic parameters of the PSCs with other reported solar cells.
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The earth receive enormous amount of solar energy in the form of sunlight [2]. This sunlight can be converted to the electrical energy to fulfill our energy requirements [3]. The photovoltaic device (solar cells) can directly converted the sunlight to the electricity [4]. In previous decades, different kinds of photovoltaic devices (dye-sensitized solar cells = DSSCs, organic solar cells = OSCs, polymer solar cells, quantum-dot sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells) were developed [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. These kinds of solar cells have attracted the scientific community due to their simple manufacturing procedure and cost-effectiveness [10].
The PSCs gained huge attention because of their excellent photovoltaic performance and low-cost [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]. The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) involve a perovskite light absorber layer. The perovskite is a material which has a molecular formula of ABO3. The perovskite term was given to the calcium titanate (CaTiO3). There is also another class of perovskite materials exists with molecular formula of ABX3 (where A = Cs+, CH3NH3+; B = Pb2+ or Sn2+ and X = I−, Br− or Cl−). This class of perovskite materials possesses excellent absorption properties, charge carrier properties and suitable band gap. In 2009, Kojima et al. [17] prepared the methyl ammonium lead halide (MAPbX3; where MA = CH3NH3+, X = halide anion) perovskite materials and investigated their optoelectronic properties. Further, authors fabricated the dye sensitized solar cells using MAPbX3 visible light sensitizer [17]. The performance of the developed dye sensitized solar cells was evaluated and the device exhibited good power conversion efficiency (PCE) and open circuit voltage. The fabricated dye sensitized solar cells with MAPbX3 visible light sensitizer exhibited the good PCE of ~3.8% [17]. Although, this power conversion efficiency was quite interesting but the presence of liquid electrolyte vanished this performance. Hence, it was observed that the use of alternative solid state electrolyte/hole transport material would be of great significance. In this regard, numerous strategies were developed to overcome the issue of liquid electrolyte. In this regard, a solid state electrolyte was employed by Lee et al. [18] to develop the PSCs. The developed PSCs device showed the good power conversion efficiency of 10.9%. In last few years, various novel approaches were advanced to improve the photovoltaic performance of the PSCs [19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30] and recently the best PCE of 23.3% was achieved for PSCs [31].
In this chapter, we have discussed the construction of PSCs. Recent advances in PSCs with respect to the charge collection layer/electron transport layer and future prospective have also been discussed.
The fabrication of PSCs required different layers such as transparent conductive oxide coated fluorine doped tin oxide = FTO, electron transport layer (generally consists of semiconducting metal oxides), light absorber layer (perovskite), hole transport material (HTM) layer and metal contact (Au) layer. In the first step, FTO glass substrate etched with the help of zinc powder and HCl followed by the washing of the etched FTO glass substrate with acetone, DI water and 2-propanol. The compact layer of the TiO2 deposited on to the FTO glass substrate using spin coater and annealed at ~500°C for 30–40 min. Further electron transport layer also deposited on the electrode using spin coater and annealed at ~500°C for 30–40 min. The perovskite light absorber layer deposited using spin coater and annealed at ~80–120°C for 20–60 min. Further, hole transport material (HTM) also deposited using spin coater. Finally the metal contact layer (Au) deposited using thermal evaporation approach. The construction of PSCs has been presented in Figure 1.
Fabrication process for the PSCs.
The photovoltaic performance of the constructed PSCs can be determined by different techniques like external quantum efficiency (EQE), photocurrent-voltage (I-V), photoluminescence spectroscopy and incident-photo-to-current-conversion efficiency = IPCE etc. In general, the performance of any solar cell device can be determined in terms of fill factor, PCE, photocurrent density and open circuit voltage. Photoluminescence spectroscopy can also be employed to check the lifetime of the generated electrons inside the perovskite materials which is related to the recombination processes. It has also been known that the PSCs devices with high electron lifetime and lower recombination reaction rates may provide better photovoltaic performance in terms of power conversion efficiency.
The PSCs device absorbs the sunlight which created the electron–hole pairs inside the perovskite light absorber layer. This electron has to be transferred to the conductive electrode surface. Thus, electron transport layer consists of transition metal oxides (generally TiO2 or SnO2) transport this generated electron to the conductive electrode (FTO). The hole can be collected by the hole transport material layers. In some cases, the transferred electron can recombine and influence the performance of the PSCs device. Thus, some buffer or compact layers have been used to reduce the recombination process. The perovskite materials used in such PSCs devices worked as light absorber.
The PSCs were originated in 2009 by Kojima et al. [17] and reported an interesting PCE of 3.1%. Further different approaches were utilized to improve the PCE of the PSCs. Recently, Tang et al. [32] prepared the low temperature processed zinc oxide nanowalls (ZnO NWs). Authors employed these prepared ZnO NWs as electron collection layer for the development of PSCs [32]. The morphological features of the prepared ZnO NWs were determined by scanning electron microscopy = SEM and transmission electron microscopy = TEM. The SEM and TEM results confirmed the formation of ZnO NWs. Further PSCs were constructed using ZnO NWs as electron collection layer whereas MAPbI3 as light absorber. The device architecture of the PSCs has been presented inFigure 2a. The energy level values of the perovskite light absorber, ZnO, indium doped tin oxide (ITO), spiro-OMeTAD and Ag have been displayed in Figure 2b.
Schematic picture of PSCs device architecture (a). Energy level diagram of PSCs components (b). J-V graphs of the PSCs constructed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films (c). IPCE of the PSCs constructed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films (d). Reprinted with permission [32].
The performance of the PSCs devices with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films were evaluated by J-V analysis. The J-V curves of the PSCs developed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films have been depicted in Figure 2c. The constructed PSCs device with ZnO NWs exhibited the highest PCE of 13.6% whereas the PSCs developed with ZnO thin films showed the PCE of 11.3%. This showed that ZnO NWs plays crucial role in charge collection compare to the ZnO thin films. The NWs of ZnO collect the generated electron more efficiently compare to the ZnO thin films. Further, incident IPCE of the constructed PSCs was also checked. The IPCE curves of the PSCs developed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films have been presented in Figure 2d. The PSCs developed with ZnO NWs showed the highest open circuit voltage of 1000 mV whereas the PSCs device fabricated with ZnO thin films showed the open circuit voltage of 980 mV. The constructed PSCs with ZnO NWs exhibited the improved IPCE compared to the PSCs device developed with ZnO thin films.
In other work, Mahmud et al. [33] synthesized low-temperature processed ZnO thin film.
The optical properties of the prepared ZnO thin film were investigated by employing ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) absorption spectroscopy. The Tauc plot of the ZnO has been presented in Figure 3A. The synthesized ZnO possess an optical band gap of 3.53 eV as confirmed by Tauc relation. The formation of ZnO on ITO glass substrate was confirmed by employing X-ray diffraction = XRD method. The XRD pattern of the ZnO has been presented in Figure 3B. The XRD pattern of the ZnO showed the crystalline nature with strong diffraction peaks. Authors employed ZnO thin film as electro transport layer for the construction of PSCs [33]. The MAPbI3 was utilized as light absorber layer. Authors also investigated the morphological features of the MAPbI3 films prepared on ZnO. The SEM results showed the presence of uniform surface morphology of the MAPbI3 perovskite [33]. Further, PSCs were fabricated and the device architecture of the fabricated PSCs has been depicted in Figure 4A.
Tauc plot of the ZnO (A). XRD pattern of the ZnO/ITO (B). Reprinted with permission [33].
Schematic diagram of the PSCs device (A). Energy level diagram of the PSCs (B). Reprinted with permission [33].
The energy level diagram of the fabricated PSCs device has been presented in Figure 4B. The photovoltaic performance of the constructed PSCs device was evaluated by recording J-V curve. The obtained results showed that the fabricated PSCs device with ZnO thin film possess a highest PCE of 8.77% with open circuit voltage of 932 mV.
In 2017, Li et al. [34] synthesized ZnO/Zn2SnO4 under facile conditions. The synthesized ZnO/Zn2SnO4 was utilized as compact layer for the fabrication of MAPbI3 based PSCs. Authors recorded the XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer [34]. The XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer has been presented in Figure 5a.
XRD patterns of the MAPbI3 (a) and ZnO/ZSO CL (b). Reprinted with permission [34].
The XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer showed the well-defined diffraction planes which suggested the successful formation of MAPbI3 perovskite as shown in Figure 5a. The formation of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 was checked by XRD and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The recorded XRD pattern of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 has been presented in Figure 5b. The XRD pattern showed the diffraction planes for the ZnO, Zn2SnO4 and SnO2.
This confirmed the formation of ZnO/Zn2SnO4. Further, authors also investigated the morphological characteristics of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 using SEM analysis [34]. Authors employed ZnO/Zn2SnO4 as compact layer and developed the PSCs devices [34]. Authors also developed the PSCs using TiO2 with different thickness [34]. The performance of the developed PSCs devices were evaluated by J-V approach. The recorded J-V curves of the developed PSCs with different thicknesses (40 nm, 60 nm, 80 nm, 100 nm and 120 nm) of TiO2 have been presented in Figure 6. The PSCs device fabricated with TiO2 (thickness = 100 nm) exhibited the highest performance compared to the PSCs device fabricated with TiO2 of different thicknesses.
J-V curves of PSCs based on different thickness of TiO2 CLs. Reprinted with permission [34].
Furthermore, the photovoltaic performance of the PSCs developed using ZnO/Zn2SnO4 as compact layer with different thickness (15 nm, 35 nm, 55 nm, 75 nm and 95 nm) were also evaluated. The J-V curves of the PSCs developed using ZnO/Zn2SnO4 with different thickness (15 nm, 35 nm, 55 nm, 75 nm and 95 nm) has been presented in Figure 7. Authors found that the PSCs device fabricated with ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 15 nm) has poor photovoltaic parameters which resulted to the poor performance [34].
J-V curves of PSCs based on different thickness of ZnO/ZSO CLs. Reprinted with permission [34].
The PSCs device fabricated with ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 75 nm) showed enhanced photovoltaic parameters which resulted to the improved photovoltaic performance (Figure 7). This showed that ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 75 nm) is more effective charge compact layer compared to the TiO2.
In another recent work, Chang et al. [35] developed the PSCs using Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer.
In this work, Chang et al. [35] prepared the thin films of Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer using a post treatment approach. Authors used CsI to promote the morphological features and crystallization of the thin films of Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer. The use of Cs helps to obtain the large grain size of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite. The grain size of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layers were ranges 270 nm–650 nm. The formation of the perovskite light absorber layers were confirmed by XRD analysis. The optical band gap of the perovskite light absorber layer was also calculated by using Tauc relation.
The Cs doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber has a band gap of 1.59 eV whereas this band gap slightly increases with increasing CsI concentrations. The increase in the optical band gap of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer also confirmed the insertion of Cs in to the perovskite light absorber layer.
The SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers were also recorded. The recorded SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers without and with CsI treatment have been presented in Figure 8a–f. The SEM picture of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer without CsI treatment showed the small grain size (Figure 8a). However, the insertion of CsI to the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer increases the grain size as confirmed by the SEM investigations. The highly uniform surface morphology was observed in case of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer treated with 6mg mL−1 CsI (Figure 8d). Furthermore, PSCs devices were fabricated using CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers. The schematic picture of the developed PSCs device has been presented in Figure 9. The constructed PSCs device with CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer (with 6 mg mL−1 CsI treatment) exhibited the best PCE of 14.4% with open circuit voltage of 1.05 V. However, the PSCs developed without CsI treatment showed the relatively lower PCE of 10.5%. There are different kinds of solar cells existed and each type of solar cell has different light absorbing materials. The photovoltaic performance of the PSCs has been compared with other reported solar cells as shown in Table 1.
SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 thin films: untreated (a) and treated with 2.5 mg mL−1 (b), 5 mg mL−1 (c), 6 mg mL−1 (d), 7 mg mL−1 (e), 9 mg mL−1 CsI (f). Reprinted with permission [35].
Schematic picture of the constructed PSCs device. Reprinted with permission [35].
Absorber layer | JSC (mA/cm2) | VOC (mV) | PCE (%) | Type of solar cells | References |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MAPbI3 | 19.2 | 720 | 10.2 | PSCs | [36] |
perovskite | 22.7 | 240 | 2.02 | PSCs | [37] |
MASnI3 | 16.8 | 880 | 6.4 | PSCs | [38] |
FASnI3 | 17.53 | 600 | 6.7 | PSCs | [39] |
FASnI3 | 24.1 | 520 | 9 | PSCs | [40] |
MASnI3 | 11.1 | 970 | 7.6 | PSCs | [41] |
FASn0.5Pb0.5I3 | 21.9 | 700 | 10.2 | PSCs | [42] |
MASn0.25Pb0.75 | 15.8 | 730 | 7.37 | PSCs | [43] |
Al3+doped CH3NH3PbI3 | 22.4 | 1001 | 19.1 | PSCs | [44] |
Dye | 13.2 | 570 | 4.63 | DSSCs | [45] |
Dye | 15.46 | 821 | 8.20 | DSSCs | [46] |
Polymer light absorber | 20.65 | 946 | 14.45 | Polymer | [47] |
Polymer light absorber | 19.1 | 990 | 11.5 | Polymer | [48] |
Perovskite quantum dot | 15.1 | 1220 | 13.8 | Quantum dot PSCs | [49] |
Quantum dot light absorber | 26.70 | 780 | 13.84 | Quantum dot solar cells | [50] |
Organic light absorbing material | 21.8 | 940 | 14.8 | Organic solar cells | [51] |
Comparison of the photovoltaic parameters of the PSCs with other reported solar cells.
Since the origin, PSCs have received enormous attention due to their simple solution-processed fabrication, high performance and cost-effectiveness. This is because of the excellent optoelectronic properties of the organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite light absorbers. The PSCs achieved a highest power conversion efficiency of more than 24%. The PSCs can be employed for practical applications due to their high performance and cost-effectiveness. However, the poor aerobic stability and moisture sensitivity of the perovskite light absorbers restricts their practical applications. Thus, it is of great importance to overcome the issue of moisture sensitivity and poor stability of the PSCs. In previous years numerous strategies and methods were developed to enhance the stability of the PSCs. However, further improvements are necessary to commercialize the PSCs at large scale.
We believe that the following points/strategies would be beneficial to further enhance the stability and photovoltaic performance of the PSCs:
New device architectures are required to develop the highly efficient PSCs.
The photovoltaic parameters/performance of the PSCs can be further improved by utilizing/developing new electron transport/charge extraction layers.
Some novel hydrophobic cationic groups should be introduced to the perovskite light absorbers to improve the aerobic stability and moisture sensitivity.
In present scenario, energy crisis is the major challenge for today’s world. Solar cells have the potential to overcome the issue of energy crisis. In last 10 years, PSCs have attracted the materials scientists due to its excellent photovoltaic performance and easy fabrication procedures. The highly efficient PSCs involve MAPbX3 as light absorber layer. The photovoltaic performance of the PSCs can be influenced by the presence of absorber layer or electron transport layer. Previously different kinds of electron transport layers have been widely studied to enhance the performance of the MAPbX3 based PSCs. The highest PCE of more than 24% has been certified by NREL for MAPbX3 based PSCs device. This excellent PCE is close to the commercialized silicon based solar cells. Thus, it can be said that PSCs can fulfill our energy requirements in the future. In this chapter, the fabrication of PSCs has been discussed. The recent advances in the development of PSCs with different compact layers, electron transport layers and charge collection layers have been reviewed.
K.A. would like to acknowledge Discipline of Chemistry, IIT Indore. M.Q.K. acknowledged Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Humanities, Invertis University.
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The researchers believe that the solar energy have the potential to fulfill the energy requirements [1]. The earth receive enormous amount of solar energy in the form of sunlight [2]. This sunlight can be converted to the electrical energy to fulfill our energy requirements [3]. The photovoltaic device (solar cells) can directly converted the sunlight to the electricity [4]. In previous decades, different kinds of photovoltaic devices (dye-sensitized solar cells = DSSCs, organic solar cells = OSCs, polymer solar cells, quantum-dot sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells) were developed [5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. These kinds of solar cells have attracted the scientific community due to their simple manufacturing procedure and cost-effectiveness [10].
The PSCs gained huge attention because of their excellent photovoltaic performance and low-cost [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16]. The perovskite solar cells (PSCs) involve a perovskite light absorber layer. The perovskite is a material which has a molecular formula of ABO3. The perovskite term was given to the calcium titanate (CaTiO3). There is also another class of perovskite materials exists with molecular formula of ABX3 (where A = Cs+, CH3NH3+; B = Pb2+ or Sn2+ and X = I−, Br− or Cl−). This class of perovskite materials possesses excellent absorption properties, charge carrier properties and suitable band gap. In 2009, Kojima et al. [17] prepared the methyl ammonium lead halide (MAPbX3; where MA = CH3NH3+, X = halide anion) perovskite materials and investigated their optoelectronic properties. Further, authors fabricated the dye sensitized solar cells using MAPbX3 visible light sensitizer [17]. The performance of the developed dye sensitized solar cells was evaluated and the device exhibited good power conversion efficiency (PCE) and open circuit voltage. The fabricated dye sensitized solar cells with MAPbX3 visible light sensitizer exhibited the good PCE of ~3.8% [17]. Although, this power conversion efficiency was quite interesting but the presence of liquid electrolyte vanished this performance. Hence, it was observed that the use of alternative solid state electrolyte/hole transport material would be of great significance. In this regard, numerous strategies were developed to overcome the issue of liquid electrolyte. In this regard, a solid state electrolyte was employed by Lee et al. [18] to develop the PSCs. The developed PSCs device showed the good power conversion efficiency of 10.9%. In last few years, various novel approaches were advanced to improve the photovoltaic performance of the PSCs [19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30] and recently the best PCE of 23.3% was achieved for PSCs [31].
In this chapter, we have discussed the construction of PSCs. Recent advances in PSCs with respect to the charge collection layer/electron transport layer and future prospective have also been discussed.
The fabrication of PSCs required different layers such as transparent conductive oxide coated fluorine doped tin oxide = FTO, electron transport layer (generally consists of semiconducting metal oxides), light absorber layer (perovskite), hole transport material (HTM) layer and metal contact (Au) layer. In the first step, FTO glass substrate etched with the help of zinc powder and HCl followed by the washing of the etched FTO glass substrate with acetone, DI water and 2-propanol. The compact layer of the TiO2 deposited on to the FTO glass substrate using spin coater and annealed at ~500°C for 30–40 min. Further electron transport layer also deposited on the electrode using spin coater and annealed at ~500°C for 30–40 min. The perovskite light absorber layer deposited using spin coater and annealed at ~80–120°C for 20–60 min. Further, hole transport material (HTM) also deposited using spin coater. Finally the metal contact layer (Au) deposited using thermal evaporation approach. The construction of PSCs has been presented in Figure 1.
Fabrication process for the PSCs.
The photovoltaic performance of the constructed PSCs can be determined by different techniques like external quantum efficiency (EQE), photocurrent-voltage (I-V), photoluminescence spectroscopy and incident-photo-to-current-conversion efficiency = IPCE etc. In general, the performance of any solar cell device can be determined in terms of fill factor, PCE, photocurrent density and open circuit voltage. Photoluminescence spectroscopy can also be employed to check the lifetime of the generated electrons inside the perovskite materials which is related to the recombination processes. It has also been known that the PSCs devices with high electron lifetime and lower recombination reaction rates may provide better photovoltaic performance in terms of power conversion efficiency.
The PSCs device absorbs the sunlight which created the electron–hole pairs inside the perovskite light absorber layer. This electron has to be transferred to the conductive electrode surface. Thus, electron transport layer consists of transition metal oxides (generally TiO2 or SnO2) transport this generated electron to the conductive electrode (FTO). The hole can be collected by the hole transport material layers. In some cases, the transferred electron can recombine and influence the performance of the PSCs device. Thus, some buffer or compact layers have been used to reduce the recombination process. The perovskite materials used in such PSCs devices worked as light absorber.
The PSCs were originated in 2009 by Kojima et al. [17] and reported an interesting PCE of 3.1%. Further different approaches were utilized to improve the PCE of the PSCs. Recently, Tang et al. [32] prepared the low temperature processed zinc oxide nanowalls (ZnO NWs). Authors employed these prepared ZnO NWs as electron collection layer for the development of PSCs [32]. The morphological features of the prepared ZnO NWs were determined by scanning electron microscopy = SEM and transmission electron microscopy = TEM. The SEM and TEM results confirmed the formation of ZnO NWs. Further PSCs were constructed using ZnO NWs as electron collection layer whereas MAPbI3 as light absorber. The device architecture of the PSCs has been presented inFigure 2a. The energy level values of the perovskite light absorber, ZnO, indium doped tin oxide (ITO), spiro-OMeTAD and Ag have been displayed in Figure 2b.
Schematic picture of PSCs device architecture (a). Energy level diagram of PSCs components (b). J-V graphs of the PSCs constructed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films (c). IPCE of the PSCs constructed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films (d). Reprinted with permission [32].
The performance of the PSCs devices with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films were evaluated by J-V analysis. The J-V curves of the PSCs developed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films have been depicted in Figure 2c. The constructed PSCs device with ZnO NWs exhibited the highest PCE of 13.6% whereas the PSCs developed with ZnO thin films showed the PCE of 11.3%. This showed that ZnO NWs plays crucial role in charge collection compare to the ZnO thin films. The NWs of ZnO collect the generated electron more efficiently compare to the ZnO thin films. Further, incident IPCE of the constructed PSCs was also checked. The IPCE curves of the PSCs developed with ZnO NWs and ZnO thin films have been presented in Figure 2d. The PSCs developed with ZnO NWs showed the highest open circuit voltage of 1000 mV whereas the PSCs device fabricated with ZnO thin films showed the open circuit voltage of 980 mV. The constructed PSCs with ZnO NWs exhibited the improved IPCE compared to the PSCs device developed with ZnO thin films.
In other work, Mahmud et al. [33] synthesized low-temperature processed ZnO thin film.
The optical properties of the prepared ZnO thin film were investigated by employing ultraviolet–visible (UV–vis) absorption spectroscopy. The Tauc plot of the ZnO has been presented in Figure 3A. The synthesized ZnO possess an optical band gap of 3.53 eV as confirmed by Tauc relation. The formation of ZnO on ITO glass substrate was confirmed by employing X-ray diffraction = XRD method. The XRD pattern of the ZnO has been presented in Figure 3B. The XRD pattern of the ZnO showed the crystalline nature with strong diffraction peaks. Authors employed ZnO thin film as electro transport layer for the construction of PSCs [33]. The MAPbI3 was utilized as light absorber layer. Authors also investigated the morphological features of the MAPbI3 films prepared on ZnO. The SEM results showed the presence of uniform surface morphology of the MAPbI3 perovskite [33]. Further, PSCs were fabricated and the device architecture of the fabricated PSCs has been depicted in Figure 4A.
Tauc plot of the ZnO (A). XRD pattern of the ZnO/ITO (B). Reprinted with permission [33].
Schematic diagram of the PSCs device (A). Energy level diagram of the PSCs (B). Reprinted with permission [33].
The energy level diagram of the fabricated PSCs device has been presented in Figure 4B. The photovoltaic performance of the constructed PSCs device was evaluated by recording J-V curve. The obtained results showed that the fabricated PSCs device with ZnO thin film possess a highest PCE of 8.77% with open circuit voltage of 932 mV.
In 2017, Li et al. [34] synthesized ZnO/Zn2SnO4 under facile conditions. The synthesized ZnO/Zn2SnO4 was utilized as compact layer for the fabrication of MAPbI3 based PSCs. Authors recorded the XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer [34]. The XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer has been presented in Figure 5a.
XRD patterns of the MAPbI3 (a) and ZnO/ZSO CL (b). Reprinted with permission [34].
The XRD pattern of the MAPbI3 perovskite layer showed the well-defined diffraction planes which suggested the successful formation of MAPbI3 perovskite as shown in Figure 5a. The formation of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 was checked by XRD and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The recorded XRD pattern of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 has been presented in Figure 5b. The XRD pattern showed the diffraction planes for the ZnO, Zn2SnO4 and SnO2.
This confirmed the formation of ZnO/Zn2SnO4. Further, authors also investigated the morphological characteristics of the ZnO/Zn2SnO4 using SEM analysis [34]. Authors employed ZnO/Zn2SnO4 as compact layer and developed the PSCs devices [34]. Authors also developed the PSCs using TiO2 with different thickness [34]. The performance of the developed PSCs devices were evaluated by J-V approach. The recorded J-V curves of the developed PSCs with different thicknesses (40 nm, 60 nm, 80 nm, 100 nm and 120 nm) of TiO2 have been presented in Figure 6. The PSCs device fabricated with TiO2 (thickness = 100 nm) exhibited the highest performance compared to the PSCs device fabricated with TiO2 of different thicknesses.
J-V curves of PSCs based on different thickness of TiO2 CLs. Reprinted with permission [34].
Furthermore, the photovoltaic performance of the PSCs developed using ZnO/Zn2SnO4 as compact layer with different thickness (15 nm, 35 nm, 55 nm, 75 nm and 95 nm) were also evaluated. The J-V curves of the PSCs developed using ZnO/Zn2SnO4 with different thickness (15 nm, 35 nm, 55 nm, 75 nm and 95 nm) has been presented in Figure 7. Authors found that the PSCs device fabricated with ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 15 nm) has poor photovoltaic parameters which resulted to the poor performance [34].
J-V curves of PSCs based on different thickness of ZnO/ZSO CLs. Reprinted with permission [34].
The PSCs device fabricated with ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 75 nm) showed enhanced photovoltaic parameters which resulted to the improved photovoltaic performance (Figure 7). This showed that ZnO/Zn2SnO4 (thickness = 75 nm) is more effective charge compact layer compared to the TiO2.
In another recent work, Chang et al. [35] developed the PSCs using Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer.
In this work, Chang et al. [35] prepared the thin films of Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer using a post treatment approach. Authors used CsI to promote the morphological features and crystallization of the thin films of Ce doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer. The use of Cs helps to obtain the large grain size of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite. The grain size of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layers were ranges 270 nm–650 nm. The formation of the perovskite light absorber layers were confirmed by XRD analysis. The optical band gap of the perovskite light absorber layer was also calculated by using Tauc relation.
The Cs doped CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber has a band gap of 1.59 eV whereas this band gap slightly increases with increasing CsI concentrations. The increase in the optical band gap of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer also confirmed the insertion of Cs in to the perovskite light absorber layer.
The SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers were also recorded. The recorded SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers without and with CsI treatment have been presented in Figure 8a–f. The SEM picture of the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer without CsI treatment showed the small grain size (Figure 8a). However, the insertion of CsI to the CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layer increases the grain size as confirmed by the SEM investigations. The highly uniform surface morphology was observed in case of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer treated with 6mg mL−1 CsI (Figure 8d). Furthermore, PSCs devices were fabricated using CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite light absorber layers. The schematic picture of the developed PSCs device has been presented in Figure 9. The constructed PSCs device with CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite absorber layer (with 6 mg mL−1 CsI treatment) exhibited the best PCE of 14.4% with open circuit voltage of 1.05 V. However, the PSCs developed without CsI treatment showed the relatively lower PCE of 10.5%. There are different kinds of solar cells existed and each type of solar cell has different light absorbing materials. The photovoltaic performance of the PSCs has been compared with other reported solar cells as shown in Table 1.
SEM pictures of the CH3NH3PbI3 thin films: untreated (a) and treated with 2.5 mg mL−1 (b), 5 mg mL−1 (c), 6 mg mL−1 (d), 7 mg mL−1 (e), 9 mg mL−1 CsI (f). Reprinted with permission [35].
Schematic picture of the constructed PSCs device. Reprinted with permission [35].
Absorber layer | JSC (mA/cm2) | VOC (mV) | PCE (%) | Type of solar cells | References |
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MAPbI3 | 19.2 | 720 | 10.2 | PSCs | [36] |
perovskite | 22.7 | 240 | 2.02 | PSCs | [37] |
MASnI3 | 16.8 | 880 | 6.4 | PSCs | [38] |
FASnI3 | 17.53 | 600 | 6.7 | PSCs | [39] |
FASnI3 | 24.1 | 520 | 9 | PSCs | [40] |
MASnI3 | 11.1 | 970 | 7.6 | PSCs | [41] |
FASn0.5Pb0.5I3 | 21.9 | 700 | 10.2 | PSCs | [42] |
MASn0.25Pb0.75 | 15.8 | 730 | 7.37 | PSCs | [43] |
Al3+doped CH3NH3PbI3 | 22.4 | 1001 | 19.1 | PSCs | [44] |
Dye | 13.2 | 570 | 4.63 | DSSCs | [45] |
Dye | 15.46 | 821 | 8.20 | DSSCs | [46] |
Polymer light absorber | 20.65 | 946 | 14.45 | Polymer | [47] |
Polymer light absorber | 19.1 | 990 | 11.5 | Polymer | [48] |
Perovskite quantum dot | 15.1 | 1220 | 13.8 | Quantum dot PSCs | [49] |
Quantum dot light absorber | 26.70 | 780 | 13.84 | Quantum dot solar cells | [50] |
Organic light absorbing material | 21.8 | 940 | 14.8 | Organic solar cells | [51] |
Comparison of the photovoltaic parameters of the PSCs with other reported solar cells.
Since the origin, PSCs have received enormous attention due to their simple solution-processed fabrication, high performance and cost-effectiveness. This is because of the excellent optoelectronic properties of the organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite light absorbers. The PSCs achieved a highest power conversion efficiency of more than 24%. The PSCs can be employed for practical applications due to their high performance and cost-effectiveness. However, the poor aerobic stability and moisture sensitivity of the perovskite light absorbers restricts their practical applications. Thus, it is of great importance to overcome the issue of moisture sensitivity and poor stability of the PSCs. In previous years numerous strategies and methods were developed to enhance the stability of the PSCs. However, further improvements are necessary to commercialize the PSCs at large scale.
We believe that the following points/strategies would be beneficial to further enhance the stability and photovoltaic performance of the PSCs:
New device architectures are required to develop the highly efficient PSCs.
The photovoltaic parameters/performance of the PSCs can be further improved by utilizing/developing new electron transport/charge extraction layers.
Some novel hydrophobic cationic groups should be introduced to the perovskite light absorbers to improve the aerobic stability and moisture sensitivity.
In present scenario, energy crisis is the major challenge for today’s world. Solar cells have the potential to overcome the issue of energy crisis. In last 10 years, PSCs have attracted the materials scientists due to its excellent photovoltaic performance and easy fabrication procedures. The highly efficient PSCs involve MAPbX3 as light absorber layer. The photovoltaic performance of the PSCs can be influenced by the presence of absorber layer or electron transport layer. Previously different kinds of electron transport layers have been widely studied to enhance the performance of the MAPbX3 based PSCs. The highest PCE of more than 24% has been certified by NREL for MAPbX3 based PSCs device. This excellent PCE is close to the commercialized silicon based solar cells. Thus, it can be said that PSCs can fulfill our energy requirements in the future. In this chapter, the fabrication of PSCs has been discussed. The recent advances in the development of PSCs with different compact layers, electron transport layers and charge collection layers have been reviewed.
K.A. would like to acknowledge Discipline of Chemistry, IIT Indore. M.Q.K. acknowledged Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science and Humanities, Invertis University.
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