Sequential deposition of CH3NH3PbI3 on planar NiO film for efficient planar perovskite solar cells

Long Hu, Jun Peng, Weiwei Wang, Zhe Xia, Jianyu Yuan, Jialing Lu, Xiaodong Huang, Wanli Ma*, Huaibing Song, Wei Chen, Yi-Bing Cheng, Jiang Tang*

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Abstract

The new emerging organometal trihalide perovskite holds great potential for high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells because of its high solar to electricity conversation efficiency (>16%) achieved within 4 years of research and its low-temperature solution processing. In this Letter we introduce NiO as the hole-collecting and -conducting layer in perovskite solar cells. Through a modified sequential deposition strategy, we successfully fabricated high-quality CH3NH3PbI3 onto a planar NiO layer and built a planar inverted ITO/NiO/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/Al photovoltaic device. A device efficiency of 7.6% was achieved with an impressively high open-circuit voltage (Voc) of 1.05 V. Our study demonstrates the potential application of a deep work function NiO layer for perovskite solar cells.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)547-553
Number of pages7
JournalACS Photonics
Volume1
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • perovskite
  • solar cell
  • NiO
  • sequential deposition

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