High-performance lead-free perovskite solar cell: a theoretical study

Abstract

In the present work, lead-free perovskite solar cell has been structured using CH3NH3SnI3 as an absorber layer, P3HT acting as a HTL, and TiO2 as ETL material. Perovskite solar cell is the originating photovoltaic technology that shows great elevation in its performance during recent years. The fundamental n-i-p planar heterojunction structure of photovoltaic cells has been designed and simulated with solar cell capacitance simulation software (SCAPS-1D). In this study, different parameters like thickness, acceptor density, temperature, and defect density have been varied to increase the device performance. Optimum values of different parameters have been used to attain the good results of the photovoltaic device such as PCE, VOC, FF, and JSC of 27.54%, 1.0216 V, 86.56%, and 31.14 mA/cm2, respectively. The impact of acceptor density has been varied from 1x10−12 cm−3 to 1x10−20 cm−3 for the proposed device structure. Therefore, the PCE of this device structure increases by using different charge transport materials. This simulation study shows that the proposed cell structure can be used to construct the photovoltaic cell with higher efficiency.