Mesoporous PbI2 assisted growth of large perovskite grains for efficient perovskite solar cells based on ZnO nanorods

Shibin Li; Peng Zhang; Hao Chen; Yafei Wang; Detao Liu; Jiang Wu; Hojjatollah Sarvari; Zhi David Chen

doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.01.024

Mesoporous PbI₂ assisted growth of large perovskite grains for efficient perovskite solar cells based on ZnO nanorods

Shibin Li
, Peng Zhang
, Hao Chen
, Yafei Wang
, Detao Liu
, Jiang Wu
, Hojjatollah Sarvari
, Zhi David Chen

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Abstract

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted great attention due to their low cost and high power conversion efficiency (PCE). However, the defects and grain boundaries in perovskite films dramatically degrade their performance. Here, we show a two-step annealing method to produce mesoporous PbI₂films for growth of continuous, pinhole-free perovskite films with large grains, followed by additional ethanol vapor annealing of perovskite films to reduce the defects and grain boundaries. The large perovskite grains dramatically suppress the carrier recombination, and consequently we obtain ZnO-nanorod-based PSCs that exhibit the best efficiency of 17.3%, with high reproducibility.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	990-997
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Power Sources
Volume	342
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2017.01.024
State	Published - 2017

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.

Funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61574029, 61371046, and 61421002, and National Higher-education Institution General Research and Development Fund (ZYGX2014J044). This work was also partially supported by University of Kentucky.

Funders	Funder number
National Higher-education Institution General Research and Development Fund	ZYGX2014J044
University of Kentucky
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)	61574029, 61371046, 61421002

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Carrier recombination
Mesoporous PbI
Perovskite solar cell
ZnO nanorods

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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