TY - JOUR
T1 - A solution-processed tetra-alkoxylated zinc phthalocyanine as hole transporting material for emerging photovoltaic technologies
AU - Zanotti, Gloria
AU - Mattioli, Giuseppe
AU - Paoletti, Anna Maria
AU - Pennesi, Giovanna
AU - Caschera, Daniela
AU - Maman, Nitzan
AU - Visoly-Fisher, Iris
AU - Misra, Ravi K.
AU - Etgar, Lioz
AU - Katz, Eugene A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 Gloria Zanotti et al.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - A tetra-n-butoxy zinc phthalocyanine (n-BuO)4ZnPc has been synthesized in a single step, starting from commercial precursors, and easily purified. The molecule can be solution processed to form an effective and inexpensive hole transport layer for organic and perovskite solar cells. These appealing features are suggested by the results of a series of chemical, optical, and voltammetric characterizations of the molecule, supported by the results of ab initio simulations. Preliminary measurements of (n-BuO)4ZnPc-methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite-based devices confirm such suggestion and indicate that the interface between the photoactive layer and the hole transporting layer is characterized by hole-extracting and electron-blocking properties, potentially competitive with those of other standards de facto in the field of organic hole transport materials, like the expensive Spiro-OMeTAD.
AB - A tetra-n-butoxy zinc phthalocyanine (n-BuO)4ZnPc has been synthesized in a single step, starting from commercial precursors, and easily purified. The molecule can be solution processed to form an effective and inexpensive hole transport layer for organic and perovskite solar cells. These appealing features are suggested by the results of a series of chemical, optical, and voltammetric characterizations of the molecule, supported by the results of ab initio simulations. Preliminary measurements of (n-BuO)4ZnPc-methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite-based devices confirm such suggestion and indicate that the interface between the photoactive layer and the hole transporting layer is characterized by hole-extracting and electron-blocking properties, potentially competitive with those of other standards de facto in the field of organic hole transport materials, like the expensive Spiro-OMeTAD.
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U2 - 10.1155/2018/2473152
DO - 10.1155/2018/2473152
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062418460
SN - 1110-662X
VL - 2018
JO - International Journal of Photoenergy
JF - International Journal of Photoenergy
M1 - 2473152
ER -