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González-Juárez E, Espinosa-Roa A, Cadillo-Martínez AT, Garay-Tapia AM, Amado-Briseño MA, Vázquez-García RA, Valdez-Calderon A, Velusamy J, Sanchez EM. Enhancing the stability and efficiency of MAPbI 3 perovskite solar cells by theophylline-BF 4 - alkaloid derivatives, a theoretical-experimental approach. RSC Adv 2023; 13:5070-5080. [PMID: 36762084 PMCID: PMC9907567 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra07580f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are an evolving photovoltaic field with the potential to disrupt the established silicon solar cell market. However, the presence of many transport barriers and defect trap states at the interfaces and grain boundaries has negative effects on PSCs; it decreases their efficiency and stability. The purpose of this work was to investigate the effects on efficiency and stability achieved by quaternary theophylline additives in MAPbI3 PSCs with the structure FTO/TiO2/perovskite/spiro-OMeTAD/Ag. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and theoretical calculation strategies were applied to study the additive's interaction in the layer. The tetrafluoroborinated additive results in an increase in device current density (J SC) (23.99 mA cm-1), fill factor (FF) (65.7%), and open-circuit voltage (V OC) (0.95 V), leading to significant improvement of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) to 15.04% compared to control devices (13.6%). Notably, films exposed to controlled humidity of 30% using the tetrafluoroborinated additive maintained their stability for more than 600 hours (h), while the control films were stable for less than 240 hours (h).
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- Edgar González-Juárez
- Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas (FCQ)Av. Universidad s/n, Cd. UniversitariaSan Nicolás de los GarzaNuevo LeónC.P. 66450Mexico
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- CONACyT-Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Unidad MonterreyAlianza Sur 204, PIITApodacaNuevo LeónC.P. 66628Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C. (CIMAV), Unidad MonterreyAlianza Norte 202, PIITApodacaNuevo LeónC.P. 66628Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C. (CIMAV), Unidad MonterreyAlianza Norte 202, PIITApodacaNuevo LeónC.P. 66628Mexico
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- CONACyT-Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA), Unidad MonterreyAlianza Sur 204, PIITApodacaNuevo LeónC.P. 66628Mexico,Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). Área Académica de Ciencias de la Tierra y MaterialesCarretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5., Ciudad del ConocimientoMineral de la ReformaHgoC.P. 42184Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). Área Académica de Ciencias de la Tierra y MaterialesCarretera Pachuca-Tulancingo Km. 4.5., Ciudad del ConocimientoMineral de la ReformaHgoC.P. 42184Mexico
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- Universidad Tecnológica de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de MéxicoBlvd. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla 5, Los Héroes de TizayucaTizayucaHgoC.P. 43816Mexico
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- Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge Philippa Fawcett Drive Cambridge CB3 0AS UK
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- Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, UANL, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas (FCQ)Av. Universidad s/n, Cd. UniversitariaSan Nicolás de los GarzaNuevo LeónC.P. 66450Mexico
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Du Z, Xiang H, Xie A, Ran R, Zhou W, Wang W, Shao Z. Monovalent Copper Cation Doping Enables High-Performance CsPbIBr 2-Based All-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 12:4317. [PMID: 36500942 PMCID: PMC9736419 DOI: 10.3390/nano12234317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have delivered the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.7% currently, but they are unfortunately limited by several key issues, such as inferior humid and thermal stability, significantly retarding their widespread application. To tackle the instability issue, all-inorganic PSCs have attracted increasing interest due to superior structural, humid and high-temperature stability to their organic-inorganic counterparts. Nevertheless, all-inorganic PSCs with typical CsPbIBr2 perovskite as light absorbers suffer from much inferior PCEs to those of organic-inorganic PSCs. Functional doping is regarded as a simple and useful strategy to improve the PCEs of CsPbIBr2-based all-inorganic PSCs. Herein, we report a monovalent copper cation (Cu+)-doping strategy to boost the performance of CsPbIBr2-based PSCs by increasing the grain sizes and improving the CsPbIBr2 film quality, reducing the defect density, inhibiting the carrier recombination and constructing proper energy level alignment. Consequently, the device with optimized Cu+-doping concentration generates a much better PCE of 9.11% than the pristine cell (7.24%). Moreover, the Cu+ doping also remarkably enhances the humid and thermal durability of CsPbIBr2-based PSCs with suppressed hysteresis. The current study provides a simple and useful strategy to enhance the PCE and the durability of CsPbIBr2-based PSCs, which can promote the practical application of perovskite photovoltaics.
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- Zhaonan Du
- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing 210009, China
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- WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
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Liu H, Hussain S, Abbas Z, Lee J, Abbas Jaffery SH, Jung J, Kim HS, Vikraman D, Kang J. Fabrication of High-Performance Solar Cells and X-ray Detectors Using MoX 2@CNT Nanocomposite-Tuned Perovskite Layers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:33626-33640. [PMID: 35834414 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c08842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The interface design of inorganic and organic halide perovskite-based devices plays an important role to attain high performance. The modification of transport layers (ETL and HTL) or the perovskite layer is given the crucial inspiration to realize superior power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). The highly conducting 2D materials of CNT, graphene/GO, and transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are suitable substitutes to tune the electronic structure/work function of perovskite devices. Herein, the nanocomposites composed of molybdenum dichalcogenides (MoX2 = MoS2, MoSe2, and MoTe2) stretched CNT was embedded with HTL or perovskite layer to improve the resulted characteristics of perovskite devices of solar cells and X-ray detectors. A superior solar cell efficiency of 12.57% was realized for the MoTe2@CNT nanocomposites using a modified active layer-composed device. Additionally, X-ray detectors with MoTe2@CNT-modulated active layers achieved 13.32 μA/cm2, 3.99 mA/Gy·cm2, 4.81 × 10-4 cm2/V·s, and 2.13 × 1015 cm2/V·s of CCD-DCD, sensitivity, mobility, and trap density, respectively. Density functional theory approximation was used to realize the improved electronics properties, optical properties, and energy band structures in the MoX2@CNT-doped perovskites evidently. Thus, the current research paves the way for the improvement of highly efficient semiconductor devices based on perovskite-based structures with the use of 2D nanocomposites.
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- Hailiang Liu
- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Korea
- Convergence Semiconductor Research Center, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Korea
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- Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
- Hybrid Materials Center (HMC), Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
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- Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
- Hybrid Materials Center (HMC), Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Korea
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- Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
- Hybrid Materials Center (HMC), Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
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- Department of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
- Hybrid Materials Center (HMC), Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea
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- Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul 04620, Korea
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- Division of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul 04620, Korea
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- Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Korea
- Convergence Semiconductor Research Center, Dankook University, Yongin 16890, Korea
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