Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV14)
Publication date: 1st March 2014
Organometallic halide perovskite have recently emerged as a new class of excellent light absorbers with carrier-transport function that have demonstrated exceptional progress in solar cells performance. These compounds exhibit very high efficiency using simple planar configurations. We report on the stabilization of a iodide/chloride mixed-halide (CH3NH3PbI3-xClx) perovskite sensitized solid-state solar cells using spiro-OMeTAD as hole transport materials. Our samples of a solution processed planar thin-film architecture (FTO/compact TiO2/perovskite/HTM/Au) achieved a remarkable photovoltaic performance with excellent stability on time. Interestingly, even when the sample are stored in the air at the room temperature without encapsulation,a long-term stability for over 600 h was observed for the cell with high power conversion efficiency of 12.5 % under standard illumination conditions (100 mW/cm2, AM 1.5G). In order to accomplish high reproducibility and improvement of the short-term performances of the devices we optimized the several issues (such as temperature, pressure, nature of the compact layer, and additives).