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Influence of the Architecture and Interfaces in Perovskite Solar Cells
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Uribe, J.I. Influence of the Architecture and Interfaces in Perovskite Solar Cells [Tesis doctoral].Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. 2017.
Autor
Uribe Alzate, José Ignacio
Institución
Resumen
ABSTRACT: Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have reached a surprising high performance in the last few
years due to the large research e ort. Some of this e ort has focused on optimizing
the architecture, selective layer properties, and the interaction between the di erent
components of the cell. Nevertheless, the e ect of the architecture and selective layers
on some physical properties of the perovskite itself, and in the complete cell has not
been completely understood. Moreover the improvement of the carrier dynamics at the
interface and through di erent surface treatment is one most interesting topic in the
PSCs community.
In this work, I present a study of the in
uence of the architecture, selective layers, and
interfaces treatments in metal halide PSCs.
In order to analyze the in
uence of the architecture and di erent selective contacts, rst
it was implemented di erent hole transporting layers (HTL). To do that, was studied
the in
uence of nickel oxide (NiOx), copper thiocyanate (CuSCN) and copper oxide
(CuOx) in a planar structure. The PSCs with NiOx presented superior performance
than the PSCs with CuOx and CuSCN. Their performance (solar cells with CuSCN and
CuOx) was similar to the cells without HTL. The low photovoltaic response of the cells
with CuOx CuSCN as HTL was due to poor morphology, bad transport properties, and
de cient band alignment with perovskite. In another way, the band alignment, high
coverage area, and good morphology make the cells fabricated with NiOx superior.
Afterward di erences in the band bending and work function of the perovskite as is
grown on NiOx in planar architecture or NiOx-Al2O3 in a mesoporous con guration
were obtained. A facet dependence on the photoluminiscence (PL) and lifetime of the
charges through Scanning Intensity modulated kelvin probe microscopy (IM-KPFM)
was obtained.
The in
uence of the surface modi cations in selective layers in perovskite solar cells were
worked in three cases.
In rst instance the role of rhodamine interface between the 61-butyric acid methyl ester
(PCBM) and the Ag electrode was carefully studied. Through kelvin Probe force
microscopy (KPFM) was found a
attening of the PCBM surface after rhodamine treatment,
and a change in the Ag electrode work function after its interaction with the
rhodamine. As a consequence the ll factor (FF) and the short circuit current (Jsc)
increase and the performance of the cells was improved.
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As another example of interface modi cation, a nanoparticle-based solution-processed
TiO2 layer (TiO2-NP) was implemented. I studied the in
uence of TiO2- PCBM treatment
in a n-i-p solar cell. Through SKPFM I found a band bending present in an
p-i-n structure without PCBM which means that TiO2-NP layer does not block the
holes in the lm due to pinholes in the lms, meanwhile after the PCBM treatment
the band bending changes the direction, and the performances of the PSCs is improved
signi cantly.
Additionally, I analyzed the in
uence of MACl treatment in a scalable process for perovskite
fabrication based on the acetonitrile crystallization route (ACN). Using surface
photovoltage (SPV) was studied the change in morphology and electronic properties of
the ACN perovskite when MACl treatment is implemented. I found that after MACl
treatment, grain size changes, and a passivation of the boundaries under illumination,
moreover the PL response is clearly superior with MACl, proving the increase of the
radiative recombination, and a decrease of trap states assisted recombination. Those results
explain the improvement of all the photovoltaic parameters and performance of the
PSCs when the perovskite is fabricated through the ACN route under MACl treatment.