Cobalt Oxide (CoOx) as an Efficient Hole-Extracting Layer for High-Performance Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells

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• 作者：Ahmed Esmail Shalan ; Tomoya Oshikiri ; Sudhakar Narra ; Mahmoud M. Elshanawany ; Kosei Ueno ; Hui-Ping Wu ; Keisuke Nakamura ; Xu Shi ; Eric Wei-Guang Diau ; Hiroaki Misawa
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 14, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：49
• 页码：33592-33600
• 全文大小：567K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

CoO_x is a promising hole-extracting layer (HEL) for inverted planar perovskite solar cells with device configuration ITO/CoO_x/CH₃NH₃PbI₃/PCBM/Ag. The devices fabricated according to a simple solution procedure showed the best photovoltaic performance attaining power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 14.5% under AM 1.5 G 1 sun irradiation, which is significantly superior to those of materials fabricated with a traditional HEL such as PEDOT:PSS (12.2%), NiO_x (10.2%), and CuO_x (9.4%) under the same experimental conditions. We characterized the chemical compositions with XPS, crystal structures with XRD, and film morphology with SEM/AFM techniques. Photoluminescence (PL) spectra and the corresponding PL decays for perovskite deposited on varied HEL films were recorded to obtain the hole-extracting characteristics, for which the hole-extracting times show the order CoO_x (2.8 ns) < PEDOT:PSS (17.5 ns) < NiO_x (22.8 ns) < CuO_x (208.5 ns), consistent with the trend of their photovoltaic performances. The reproducibility and enduring stability of those devices were examined to show the outstanding long-term stability of the devices made of metal oxide HEL, for which the CoO_x device retained PCE ≈ 12% for over 1000 h.