Towards efficient integrated perovskite/organic bulk heterojunction solar cells: interfacial energetic requirement to reduce charge carrier recombination losses
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Journal Article
Abstract
Integrated perovskite/organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells have the potential to enhance the efficiency of perovskite solar cells by a simple one‐step deposition of an organic BHJ blend photoactive layer on top of the perovskite absorber. It is found that inverted structure integrated solar cells show significantly increased short‐circuit current (J sc) gained from the complementary absorption of the organic BHJ layer compared to the reference perovskite‐only devices. However, this increase in J sc is not directly reflected as an increase in power conversion efficiency of the devices due to a loss of fill factor. Herein, the origin of this efficiency loss is investigated. It is found that a significant energetic barrier (≈250 meV) exists at the perovskite/organic BHJ interface. This interfacial barrier prevents efficient transport of photogenerated charge carriers (holes) from the BHJ layer to the perovskite layer, leading to charge accumulation at the perovskite/BHJ interface. Such accumulation is found to cause undesirable recombination of charge carriers, lowering surface photovoltage of the photoactive layers and device efficiency via fill factor loss. The results highlight a critical role of the interfacial energetics in such integrated cells and provide useful guidelines for photoactive materials (both perovskite and organic semiconductors) required for high‐performance devices.
Date Issued
2020-06-18
Date Acceptance
2020-03-23
Citation
Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30 (25), pp.1-8
ISSN
1616-301X
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1
End Page
8
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Functional Materials
Volume
30
Issue
25
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
KP Technology
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Grant Number
EP/L016702/1
NRF-2017K1A1A2013153
N/A
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Technology
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chemistry, Physical
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Physics, Applied
Physics, Condensed Matter
Chemistry
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Materials Science
Physics
bulk heterojunctions
integrated cell
perovskites
photovoltages
solar cells
transient optical spectroscopy
SURFACE PHOTOVOLTAGE SPECTROSCOPY
OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGE
HIGH-PERFORMANCE
TRANSPORT
PHYSICS
SINGLE
LIMIT
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 2001482
Date Publish Online
2020-04-29