Impact of metal electrode work function of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

Rong, Xiaoying; Tian, Hua; Bi, Wengang; Huijiao, Jin; Zhang, Tian; Guo, Dan; Zhao, Kunyue

doi:10.1016/j.solener.2017.08.050

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“…The main reason for such superior results is the thicknesses of the ZnO layer (100 nm) and the silicon layer (100 μm) for which the structure is considered ideal. Rong [43] simulated n-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Silicon heterojunction solar cell in Silvaco TCAD for which an open circuit voltage of 0.41 V was obtained, which is similar to [44]. Fig.…”

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“…Similarly to the work of Rong et al's. [43], all of the open circuit voltages of our solar cells are smaller than 0.45 V, which is mainly due to metal's work-function of 4.3 eV, used as an ohmic contact in our simulations. In addition, it is proven that the open circuit voltage strongly depends on the metal work-function according to electric boundary conditions [44].…”

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Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

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Accouche²,

Алиев³

et al. 2023

Computers, Materials &Amp; Continua

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Today, it has become an important task to modify existing traditional silicon-based solar cell factory to produce high-efficiency silicon-based heterojunction solar cells, at a lower cost. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 and ZnO materials as an emitter layer for p-type silicon wafer-based heterojunction solar cells. CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 and ZnO can be synthesized using the cheap Sol-Gel method and can form n-type semiconductor. We propose to combine these two materials since CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 is a great light absorber and ZnO has an optimal complex refractive index which can be used as antireflection material. The photoelectric parameters of n-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si, n-ZnO/p-Si, and n-Si/p-Si solar cells have been studied in the range of 20-200 nm of emitter layer thickness. It has been found that the short circuit current for CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si and n-ZnO/p-Si solar cells is almost the same when the emitter layer thickness is in the range of 20-100 nm. Additionally, when the emitter layer thickness is greater than 100 nm, the short circuit current of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si exceeds that of n-ZnO/p-Si. The optimal emitter layer thickness for n-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si and n-ZnO/p-Si was found equal to 80 nm. Using this value, the short-circuit current and the fill factor were estimated around 18.27 mA/cm 2 and 0.77 for n-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si and 18.06 mA/cm 2 and 0.73 for n-ZnO/p-Si. Results show that the efficiency of n-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si and n-ZnO/p-Si solar cells with an emitter layer thickness of 80 nm are 1.314 and 1.298 times greater than efficiency of traditional n-Si/p-Si for the same sizes. These findings will help perovskites materials to be more appealing in the PV industry and accelerate their development to become a viable alternative in the renewable energy sector.

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Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

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“…This further proved that the increase of the counter electrode work function results in a reduction of electric field across the interface, which leads to insufficient charge collection and low V oc . 25 The photovoltaic parameters of the PSCs were simulated with varying work function of the counter electrode (Fig. 2b and c), indicating the substantial role of work function in device performance.…”

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“…Recent research shows that the work functions of metal counter electrodes have significant effects on interfacial charge collection efficiency and device performance. 25 It is also proved that heat can vaporize halides and induce ion migration towards metal counter electrodes, leading to halide reaction with the metal layer. 26 These metal corrosion issues resulted in severe perovskite deformation and device degradation.…”

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Counter electrodes for perovskite solar cells: materials, interfaces and device stability

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“…44 In the present work, we have simulated the PSCs devices with different back metal contacts such as Ag, Cr, Cu, Ni, Au, and Pt with their metal work function of 4.26, 4.5, 4.65, 5.15, 5.1, and 5.65 eV to investigate the device response. 6,59,60 As shown in Figure 9A, the value of V OC and J SC was less as 0.56 V and 10.7 mA/cm 2 for the work function of 4.26 eV which further increases after increase in work function and shows V OC and J SC of ~0.85 V and ~11.10 mA/cm 2 for the work function of 5.10, 5.15 and 5.65 eV. In the case of lower work function, holes cannot transport efficiently to the back metal contact which reduces the V OC .…”

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Investigating the potential of lead‐free double perovskite Cs ₂ AgBiBr ₆ material for solar cell applications: A theoretical study

Raj

Kumar

et al. 2022

Intl J of Energy Research

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Recently, Silver-Bismuth based lead-free double perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have established their significance as a possible substitute for lead-based absorber in the PSCs due to its higher stability and nontoxic properties. In the present work, lead-free double perovskite Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 compound has been used as an absorber in the layered structure of PSC. This compound has been studied in details for its physical properties (electronic and optical) using the first principle calculation. Additionally, a lead-free PSC is designed in SACPS-1D simulation software with cell configuration of FTO/TiO 2 /Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 / Spiro-OMeTAD/Au and studied for its various parameters useful for its applications in PSCs. Initially, the device is optimized under experimental counterpart to validate the simulation study and further various other material parameters such as band-gap, defect density, thickness of absorber, series resistance and operating temperature are optimized to deliver improved performance. The final optimized lead-free double PSCs exhibited power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.68%, open-circuit voltage (V OC ) of 0.90 V, current density (J SC ) of 11.09 mA/cm 2 and fill factor (FF) of 66.61%. Further, different ETLs such as TiO 2 , SnO 2 , ZnO, IGZO and PCBM are simulated with proposed device configuration and found TiO 2 and SnO 2 as suitable ETL candidate for Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 based lead-free PSCs.

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Impact of metal electrode work function of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

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Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

Counter electrodes for perovskite solar cells: materials, interfaces and device stability

Investigating the potential of lead‐free double perovskite Cs ₂ AgBiBr ₆ material for solar cell applications: A theoretical study

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Impact of metal electrode work function of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 /p-Si planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells

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Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

Analyzing the ZnO and CH3NH3PbI3 as Emitter Layer for Silicon Based Heterojunction Solar Cells

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Investigating the potential of lead‐free double perovskite Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 material for solar cell applications: A theoretical study

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Investigating the potential of lead‐free double perovskite Cs ₂ AgBiBr ₆ material for solar cell applications: A theoretical study