Recent progress in morphology optimization in perovskite solar cell
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite based solar cell technology has passed through a phase of unprecedented growth in the efficiency scale from 3.8% to above 25% within a decade. This technology has drawn tremendous research interest because of facile solution processability, ease of large sc...
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| Published in | Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability Vol. 8; no. 41; pp. 21356 - 21386 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Cambridge
Royal Society of Chemistry
01.01.2020
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| Summary: | Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite based solar cell technology has passed through a phase of unprecedented growth in the efficiency scale from 3.8% to above 25% within a decade. This technology has drawn tremendous research interest because of facile solution processability, ease of large scale manufacturing and ultra-low cost production of perovskite based thin film solar cells. It has been observed that performances of perovskite-based solar cells are extremely dependent on the morphology and crystallinity of the perovskite layer. The high-quality perovskite films have made a significant impact on the fabrication of efficient and stable hybrid perovskite solar cells. It has also been observed that device lifetime depends on the perovskite morphology; devices with larger perovskite grains degrade slowly than those of the smaller ones. Various methods of perovskite growth such as sequential deposition, doctor blading, slot die coating and spray coating have been applied to achieve the most appropriate morphology necessary for highly efficient and stable solar cells. This review focuses on the recent progress in morphology optimizations by various processing condition such as annealing condition, additive effects, Lewis acid-base adduct approach, precursor solution aging and post-device ligand treatment emphasizing on grain sizes, film uniformity, defect passivation, ambient compatibility and device efficiency and stability. In this review, we also discussed recently developed bifacial stamping technique and deposition methods for large-area and roll-to-roll fabrication of highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite based solar cell technology has passed through a phase of unprecedented growth in the efficiency scale from 3.8% to above 25% within a decade. |
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| Bibliography: | Hanlin Hu received his PhD degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in October 2017. Then, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Gang Li's group in the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He became an associate researcher in the college of materials science and engineering at Shenzhen University in March, 2019. His research interests include synchrotron based crystallography characterization, printing thin film solar cells and transistors. Dr Li Gang obtained his BS degree in Space Physics from Wuhan University (1994), followed by M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics from Iowa State University, U.S.A. (2003), respectively. He has published ∼100 peer reviewed papers on Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics, Chem. Reviews, Nature Reviews Materials, JACS, Advanced Materials, Physical Reviews B M. Ibrahim Dar is an Advanced Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow working in collaboration with Prof. Sir Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory, the University of Cambridge. From 2014-2018, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with Prof. Michael Graetzel at EPFL Switzerland. He received his PhD in Nanoscience at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 2014. His current research focuses on understanding structural, compositional and optoelectronic properties of materials for their application in light-harnessing and light-emitting devices. etc. Naveen Kumar Tailor is currently a PhD student at the Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. His research interest is photophysics study and optoelectronic applications of perovskite single crystals. Vinay Gupta is an Indian materials scientist and a former senior scientist at the Physics of Energy Harvesting department of the National Physical Laboratory of India. Known for his studies on organic solar cells, carbon nanotubes arrays and Förster resonance energy transfer, Gupta is a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2017. The papers have been cited ∼50,000 times according to Google Scholar. Dr Li is on the list of Thomson Reuter/ Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science (2014-2017) and Physics (2017), with a H-index of 63. Soumitra Satapathi is actively involved in Materials Science Research in IIT Roorkee where his main focus is next generation optoelectronics devices including high efficiency perovskite solar cells, photophysical studies in solar cells. Prof. Satapathi has graduated with PhD and MS in Physics from University of Massachusetts, USA. He has published more than 40 high impact journals papers and received numerous national and international awards. His research was featured in all leading national and international print and electronic media including Nature Asia, PTI, BBC, Quartz, USA Today, Times of India to name a few. Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi is currently a lecturer at the Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London, and former research fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, UK. His research investigates emerging semiconductors for electronics applications including solar-photovoltaics and lighting. He completed his PhD in 2018 at the Optoelectronics group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, Mojtaba obtained his MSc in Materials Science and Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland where he worked with Professor Michael Grätzel on development and implementation of novel materials in emerging solar cells. |
| ISSN: | 2050-7488 2050-7496 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d0ta00143k |