Super Flexible Transparent Conducting Oxide-Free Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with 19.01% Efficiency (Active Area = 1 cm2)

Jin Hyuck Heo, David Sunghwan Lee, Fei Zhang, Chuanxiao Xiao, Su Jeong Heo, Hyong Joon Lee, Kai Zhu, Sang Hyuk Im

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Abstract

Highly efficient organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (OIHP-SCs) are often fabricated on a transparent conducting oxide (TCO) substrate such as indium tin oxide (ITO). However, the presence of TCOs is disadvantageous to the development of flexible OIHP-SCs due to the brittle nature of ITO which is easily breakable during bending. Herein, a flexible TCO-free OIHP-SC is demonstrated by using lithium bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide (Li-TFSI) as a codopant for the single-layer graphene transparent conducting electrode and poly(triarylamine) hole-transporting material (HTM) on a flexible polydimethylsiloxane substrate. The optical and electrical properties of the Li-TFSI-doped graphene substrate are measured by controlling the doping amount and the best conditions for charge extraction are established at a doping concentration of 20 mm Li-TFSI, thus optimizing the device photovoltaic performance. As a result, a highest power conversion efficiency of 19.01% is demonstrated by the flexible TCO-free OIHP-SC devices with an active area of 1 cm2. In addition, the flexible TCO-free OIHP-SCs exhibit good bending stability after 5000 bending cycles at radii of 6, 4, and 2 mm and excellent light soaking stability under 1 Sun light intensity over 1000 h as opposed to the poor stability when using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate as the HTM.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number2100733
Number of pages10
JournalSolar RRL
Volume5
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

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NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5900-81289

Keywords

  • Li-TFSI-doped graphene electrodes
  • perovskite solar cells
  • p–i–n structure
  • super flexible solar cells
  • TCO-free solar cells

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