Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16)
Publication date: 28th March 2016
Planar perovskite solar cells have been prepared with both inorganic and organic contacts. The nature of the device contacts haven been shown to be critical in reducing hysteresis in cells. TiO2 is a commonly used inorganic electron extracting layer (EEL), however it has also been shown to cause serious hysteresis phenomenon in planar devices. The band energy of the EEL is key to efficient electron extraction and doping of the EEL is a useful method for band structure modification. There are numerous reports of doping of TiO2 for photocatalysts and dye-sensitised solar cells, but the influence of different dopants on the energy band are not always understood and there are discrepancies between different reports in the literature. Here, different metal ions were introduced into the spray pyrolysis solution as dopants for TiO2 compact layers for planar solar cells. The energy bands of TiO2 layers with different dopant ions were studied and their effects on the performance of devices were investigated.