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Citation - WoS: 19
Citation - Scopus: 19
Antisolvent-Fumigated Grain Growth of Active Layer for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2021) Sajid, Sajid; Khan, Suliman; Khan, Ayub; Khan, Danish; Issakhov, Alibek; Park, Jongee
High efficiency of perovskite solar cell can be obtained through various approaches, including materials and interface engineering, device modification and fabrication techniques. In all approaches, the quality of the perovskite layer has a significant impact on the efficiency of the perovskite solar cell. Antisolvent dripping is widely used in almost all fabrication methodologies to achieve a high-quality perovskite layer. However, in the conventional antisolvent dripping, there are several factors (antisolvent volume, time and point of dripping, etc.) to be strictly followed. Due to these difficult and critical tricks, researchers often get perovskite layers with pinholes, small grains, and wide grain boundaries that deteriorate the performance of the perovskite solar cells. In order to produce perovskite films with large-scale grains, narrow boundaries and smooth surface morphology, a sealed antisolvent-fumigated process is implemented. There is no need to make any substantial efforts to achieve optimal conditions for the fabrication of high-quality perovskite layers using the antisolvent-fumigated strategy. Consequently, the efficiency of perovskite solar cell improves dramatically from 18.65% to 21.45%. Our findings present a new and convenient method for fabricating highly efficient perovskite solar cells.
Citation - WoS: 24
Citation - Scopus: 24
Identifying the Potentials for Charge Transport Layers Free N-P Homojunction-Based Perovskite Solar Cells
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2022) Khan, Danish; Sajid, Sajid; Khan, Suliman; Park, Jongee; Ullah, Ihsan
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with no charge transport layers (CTLs) could be one of the major device architectures for the production of simple and low-cost devices. However, CTLs-free PSCs based on n-p homojunction have yet to show high power conversion efficiency (PCE), which is most likely due to inadequate light-and charge-management in the p-type perovskite. The device operation is examined using Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS)-software, and a novel n-p homojunction design is proposed to attempt efficient CTLs-free PSCs. Several aspects of p-type layer that can affect device performance, such as acceptor density, photon harvesting capability, defects density, and resistances to the transport of charge-carriers are scrutinized and adjusted. Furthermore, the effects of different work-functions of metal electrodes are examined. A suitable acceptor concentration is required for oriented charge transport. It is determined that a p-type perovskite with a thickness of 0.3 mu m is advantageous for high performance. A metal electrode with a high work-function is essential for efficient device. Consequently, a PCE of 15.60% is obtained with an optimal defect density of E15 cm(-3), indicating that n-p homojunction-based CTLs-free PSCs are promising since they simplify the device design and fabrication process while retaining an acceptable PCE.