A PCBM Electron Transport Layer Containing Small Amounts of Dual Polymer Additives That Enables Enhanced Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

Overview

Journal Adv Sci (Weinh)

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2016 Oct 7

PMID 27711265

Citations 5

Authors

Zonglong Zhu

Qifan Xue

Hexiang He

Kui Jiang

Zhicheng Hu

Yang Bai

Teng Zhang

Shuang Xiao

Kenan Gundogdu

Bhoj Raj Gautam

Harald Ade

Fei Huang

Kam Sing Wong

Hin-Lap Yip

Shihe Yang

He Yan

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Abstract

is reported that enables high-performance perovskite solar cells with a high power conversion efficiency of 16.2% and with negligible hysteresis. Unlike previous approaches of reducing hysteresis by thermal annealing or fullerene passivation, the success of our approach can be mainly attributed to the doping of the PCBM layer using an insulating polymer (polystyrene) and an amine-containing polymeric semiconductor named PFNOX.

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