Preparation of Nickel Oxide Nanoflakes for Carrier Extraction and Transport in Perovskite Solar Cells

Chih Yu Chang, You Wei Wu, Sheng Hsiung Yang, Ibrahim Abdulhalim

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    Abstract

    Hole transport layers (HTLs) with high conductivity, charge extraction ability, and carrier transport capability are highly important for fabricating perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with high power conversion efficiency and device stability. Low interfacial recombination between the HTL and perovskite absorber is also crucial to the device performance of PSCs. In this work, we developed a three-stage method to prepare NiOx nanoflakes as the HTL in the inverted PSCs. Due to the addition of the nanoflake layer, the deposited perovskite films with larger grain sizes and fewer boundaries were obtained, implying higher photogenerated current and fill factors in our PSCs. Meanwhile, the downshifted valence band of the NiOx HTL improved hole extraction from the perovskite absorber and open-circuit voltages of PSCs. The optimized device based on the NiOx nanoflakes showed the highest efficiency of 14.21% and a small hysteresis, which outperformed the NiOx thin film as the HTL. Furthermore, the device maintained 83% of its initial efficiency after 60 days of storage. Our results suggest that NiOx nanoflakes provide great potential for constructing PSCs with high efficiency and long-term stability.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number3336
    JournalNanomaterials
    Volume12
    Issue number19
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 1 Oct 2022

    Keywords

    • carrier extraction
    • hole transport layer
    • inverted perovskite solar cells
    • nanoflakes
    • nickel oxide

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Chemical Engineering
    • General Materials Science

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