Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16)
Publication date: 28th March 2016
Perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) are the most fascinating solar-to-electricity converting technologies in the new century. The urge of searching for alternative hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for high-performance perovskite-based solar cells is growing. Rencently we have developed new category of porphyrin-based hole-transporting materials which are structurally simple, easy to prepare and well performed. For PSC device based on porphyrin HTM Y2, high performance with PCE of 13.82% with open-circuit voltage (VOC) and short-circuit current (JSC) of 1.01 V and 20.88 mA cm-2, respectively, is observed comparable to that based on Spiro-OMeTAD where PCE = 14.67% (VOC = 1.04 V and JSC = 20.87 mA cm-2). However, the long chain tethered Y2A2 shows lower PCE of 10.55% (VOC = 1.01 V; JSC = 17.80 mA cm-2). It is found that Y2 and Spiro-OMeTAD are of similar HOMO level and of the same order of hole mobility at 10-4 cm2 V-1 s-1. Our results offer new class of high performance hole-transporting materials for perovskite-based solar cells. To our knowledge, it is the highest-performance solar cell device (including dye-sensitized solar cells and organic photovoltaics) ever reported that is incorporated with porphyrin materials.