Design and simulation of high efficiency lead-free heterostructure perovskite solar cell using SCAPS-1D

Yasin, S.; AlZoubi, Tariq; Moustafa, Mohamed

doi:10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.166258

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“…We were able to identify Zn 2 SnO 4 as a viable and effective ETL material for lead-free perovskite solar cells among the different ETL candidates implemented, such as SnS 2 , ZnO, TiO 2 , etc ( Figure 10 ). The Zn 2 SnO 4- based device obtained an efficiency of 24.73%, which is comparable with previous works [ 20 , 51 ] with an enhanced V oc of 1.1857 V. The high electron affinity of Zn 2 SnO 4 could be the reason for the enhanced performance of the cell [ 52 ]. The detailed performance of all ETL candidates has depicted in Table 5 .…”

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Computational Probing of Tin-Based Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various Electron Transport Layer Materials on Device Performance

Shyma

Sellappan

2022

Materials

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Tin-based perovskite solar cells have gained global research attention due to the lead toxicity and health risk associated with its lead-based analog. The promising opto-electrical properties of the Tin-based perovskite have attracted researchers to work on developing Tin-based perovskite solar cells with higher efficiencies comparable to lead-based analogs. Tin-based perovskites outperform lead-based ones in areas such as optimal band gap and carrier mobility. A detailed understanding of the effects of each parameter and working conditions on Tin-based perovskite is crucial in order to improve efficiency. In the present work, we have carried out a numerical simulation of a planar heterojunction Tin-based (CH3NH3SnI3) perovskite solar cell employing a SCAPS 1D simulator. Device parameters, namely, the thickness of the absorber layer, the defect density of the absorber layer, working temperature, series resistance, and metalwork function, were exclusively investigated. ZnO was employed as the ETL (electron transport layer) material in the initial simulation to obtain optimized parameters and attained a maximum efficiency of 19.62% with 1.1089 V open circuit potential (Voc) at 700 nm thickness (absorber layer). Further, different ETL materials were introduced into the optimized device architecture, and the Zn2SnO4-based device delivered an efficiency of 24.3% with a Voc of 1.1857 V. The obtained results indicate a strong possibility to model and construct better-performing perovskite solar cells based on Tin (Sn) with Zn2SnO4 as the ETL layer.

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Computational Probing of Tin-Based Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various Electron Transport Layer Materials on Device Performance

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Sellappan

2022

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“…We were able to identify Zn2SnO4 as a viable and effective ETL material for lead free perovskite solar cell among the different ETL candidates implemented such as SnS2, ZnO, TiO2. Zn2SnO4 based device exhibited an efficiency of 24.73 % which is comparable with previous works[41] with an enhanced Voc of 1.1857 V. The detailed performance of all ETL candidates has depicted in table4.…”

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Computational Probing of Tin-based Lead-free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various ETL Materials on Device Performance

Shyma

Sellappan

2021

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Tin-based perovskite solar cells have gained global research attention due to the lead toxicity and health risk associated with its lead-based analogue. The promising opto-electrical properties of the Tin-based perovskite have attracted researchers to work on developing solar cells with higher efficiencies comparable to Lead-based analogues. Tin-based perovskites outperform the lead-based ones in areas like optimal band gap and carrier mobility. A detailed understanding regarding the effects of each parameters and working conditions on Tin-based perovskite is crucial in order to improve the efficiency. In the present work, we have carried out a numerical simulation of planar heterojunction Tin-based (CH3NH3SnI3) perovskite solar cell employing SCAPS 1D simulator. Device parameters namely thickness of the absorber layer, defect density of the absorber layer, working temperature, series resistance, metal work function have been exclusively investigated. ZnO has been employed as the ETL (Electron transport layer) material in the initial simulation to obtain optimized parameters and attained a maximum efficiency of 19.62 % with 1.1089 V open circuit potential (Voc) at 700 nm thickness (absorber layer). Further, different ETL materials have been introduced into the optimized device architecture and Zn2SnO4 based device delivers an efficiency of 24.3 % with a Voc of 1.1857 V. The obtained results indicate a strong possibility to model and construct better performing perovskite solar cells based on Tin (Sn) with Zn2SnO4 as ETL layer.

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“…In the same vein, Wang et al 53 proposed using of small molecule as ETL, as another way of improving interfacial charge recombination. Considering stability, although tin‐based perovskite has been reported in a recent work as relative unstable in air due to the quick oxidization in air of

{Sn}^{2 +}

ions into

{Sn}^{4 +}

ions, a recent advance in engineering in fabrication process has proved to enhance the stability of tin‐based perovskite solar device by adding

{SnF}_{2}

complex in the system, resulting in a quick reduction of all

{Sn}^{4 +}

ions caused by oxidation of

{Sn}^{2 +} .

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Towards high tin‐based halide organic‐inorganic perovskite photovoltaic cells efficiency improvement: SCAPS 1D modeling

Kenfack

Nya

Laref

2022

Intl J of Energy Research

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Design and simulation of high efficiency lead-free heterostructure perovskite solar cell using SCAPS-1D

Cited by 80 publications

References 38 publications

Computational Probing of Tin-Based Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various Electron Transport Layer Materials on Device Performance

Computational Probing of Tin-Based Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various Electron Transport Layer Materials on Device Performance

Computational Probing of Tin-based Lead-free Perovskite Solar Cells: Effects of Absorber Parameters and Various ETL Materials on Device Performance

Towards high tin‐based halide organic‐inorganic perovskite photovoltaic cells efficiency improvement: SCAPS 1D modeling

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