Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV19)
Publication date: 6th February 2020
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have rapidly emerged as a potential competitive photovoltaic technology reaching high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs)to a certified value of 23.7% within ten years. At this stage, the key issue is to improve long-term stability [1]. A promising direction toward improving perovskite phase stability is compositional engineering[2]. Thus, using lower amount of volatile methylammonium (MA) and more formamidinium (FA) can increase thermal stability. Lower Br/I ratios inhibits the disproportionate blue-shift of the bandgap [3]. In this work,by using the optimized perovskite composition and carbon cloth as a back contact, high PCE of 15% has been demonstrated where devices retain 60% of the initial PCE after 180 hours under 85 ºC and 40% relative humidity (RH) without any encapsulation and light soaking. The gold counterparts suffered from rapid degradation and retained 45% of the initial PCE at the same condition. In addition, the long term device stability of carbon based devices with different hole transporter material (HTM) revealed that poly[bis(4‐phenyl)(2,4,6‐trimethylphenyl)amine] (PTAA) is thermally more stable HTM than the copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) inorganic HTM (60% to 51%).