Proceedings of International Conference Asia-Pacific Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics 2018 (AP-HOPV18)
Publication date: 27th October 2017
Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have been demonstrated to be efficient light absorber for solar cells which reached over 20% power conversion efficiency (PCE) recently. Among many device architectures that have been developed so far for PSCs, the planar heterojunction (PHJ) configuration with metal oxides as a hole transporting material has many advantages such as simple device fabrication, high stability and small hysteresis. The PCE of NiOx based PSCs have been reached to 18.2% with cell size of 1cm-2, which remained 90 % of the initial PCE under 1000 hours light soaking. However, efficient NiOx layer fabricated at high temperature annealing processes (~500°C) cannot use in flexible and tandem solar. Recently, reported a low temperature (130°C) processed NiOx layer spin coated from NiOx nanoparticles and its PSCs achieved PCE of 16.5% with small cell size of 0.07 cm-2. However, any advanced engineering such as particle size of NiOx, its interfaces, and fabrication processes have not been investigated yet.
To improving the performance of PSCs, a series of advanced engineering have been intensely studied. The interface, materials, and fabrication engineering have particularly drawn widespread and sufficient attention, and many significant breakthroughs are eventually achieved. Thus, we have investigated detail properties of nanoparticles, their interfaces, and optimize fabrication processes to improve the PCE in low-temperature processed NiOx based hole transport layer. We have synthesized four kinds of NiOx nanoparticles with different particle size and investigated the photovoltaic proparties using their NiOx nanoparticles. The power conversion efficiency of over 15% have been obtained using NiOx nanoparticle which have particle diameters of 70 nm.