Exceedingly Cheap Perovskite Solar Cells Using Iron Pyrite Hole Transport Materials

Aron J. Huckaba; Paek Sanghyun; Giulia Grancini; Ebin Bastola; Cho Kyung Taek; Lee Younghui; Khagendra P. Bhandari; Christophe Ballif; Randy J. Ellingson; Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

doi:10.1002/slct.201601378

Exceedingly Cheap Perovskite Solar Cells Using Iron Pyrite Hole Transport Materials

Aron J. Huckaba
, Paek Sanghyun
, Giulia Grancini
, Ebin Bastola
, Cho Kyung Taek
, Lee Younghui
, Khagendra P. Bhandari
, Christophe Ballif
, Randy J. Ellingson
, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

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Abstract

Methyl ammonium lead tri iodide perovskite solar cells attracted significant interest due to their high efficiency over 20 % using polytriarylamine polymer (PTAA) and spiro-OMeTAD (Spiro). While the perovskite absorber material is relatively inexpensive to fabricate, the hole transport material is considerably expensive. Here we address the problem of cost by applying the vastly abundant mineral iron pyrite (FeS₂) as a hole transporting material in perovskite solar cells. We report a power conversion efficiency of 11.2 % using n-i-p configuration where the perovskite is an intrinsic semiconductor, TiO₂ as an electron acceptor (n-type layer), and FeS₂ as hole transporter (p-type layer). We show through photoluminescence quenching studies that pyrite transfers holes at least as efficiently as Spiro. Cost analysis of the pyrite HTM and Spiro indicates that currently, pyrite is >300 times cheaper to produce for 1 m² modules.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5316-5319
Number of pages	4
Journal	ChemistrySelect
Volume	1
Issue number	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201601378
State	Published - Oct 1 2016

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© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Funding

The authors acknowledge SNSF NRP 70 project; number: 407040_154056. G.G. acknowledges support from the ‘EPFL Fellows’ fellowship programme co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Horizon 2020 Grant agreement no. 665667. AH thank the European Commission H2020-ICT-2014-1, SOLEDLIGHT project, grant agreement N°: 643791 and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). EB, KPB., and RJE thank the US National Science Foundation Sustainable Energy Pathways program, Grant CHE-1230246. RJE expresses gratitude to the EPFL Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Labo- ratory for support during his appointment as Visiting Professor, August 2015 to July 2016.

Funders	Funder number
European Commission H2020-ICT-2014-1	643791
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung	CHE-1230246
Staatssekretariat für Bildung, Forschung und Innovation
Horizon 2020	665667

Keywords

Inorganic HTM
Iron Pyrite
Nanocrystals
Perovskites
Solar Cell

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General Chemistry

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