Carbon Electrode with Sputtered Au Coating for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

S. Vijayaraghavan, Jacob Wall, Wenjun Xiang, Kausar Khawaja, Lin Li, Kai Zhu, Joseph Berry, Feng Yan

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Abstract

Halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) represent a low-cost and high-efficiency solar technology. However, most of the highly efficient PSCs need a noble electrode, such as Au, through thermal evaporation. It is reported that a sputtered Au electrode on a PSC could damage the organic hole transport layer (HTL) and the perovskite layer. Here, we report a simple, yet effective sputtered gold nanoparticle decorated carbon electrode to fabricate efficient and stable planar PSCs. The sputtered Au layer on the doctor-bladed coated carbon electrode can be directly applied to the perovskite semicells by mechanical stacking. By optimizing the gold thickness, a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.87% was obtained for the composite electrode-based PSC, while the reference device recorded a PCE of 12.38%. The composite electrode-based device demonstrated 96% performance retention after being stored under humid conditions (50-60%) without encapsulation for ~100 h. This demonstrates a promising pathway toward the commercialization of large-scale manufacturable sputtered electrodes for the PSC solar module.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)15290-15297
Number of pages8
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume15
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5900-85907

Keywords

  • carbon electrode
  • high-efficiency
  • interfacial engineering
  • perovskite solar cells
  • sputtered gold particles
  • stability

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