Photoactivated p-Doping of Organic Interlayer Enables Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Xiaopeng Zheng; Jiang Liu; Tuo Liu; Erkan Aydin; Min Chen; Wenbo Yan; Michele De Bastiani; Thomas G. Allen; Shuai Yuan; Ahmad R. Kirmani; Kyle N. Baustert; Michael F. Salvador; Bekir Turedi; Abdullah Y. Alsalloum; Khulud Almasabi; Konstantinos Kotsovos; Issam Gereige; Liang Sheng Liao; Joseph M. Luther; Kenneth R. Graham; Omar F. Mohammed; Stefaan De Wolf; Osman M. Bakr

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00780

Photoactivated p-Doping of Organic Interlayer Enables Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells

Xiaopeng Zheng, Jiang Liu, Tuo Liu, Erkan Aydin, Min Chen, Wenbo Yan, Michele De Bastiani, Thomas G. Allen, Shuai Yuan, Ahmad R. Kirmani, Kyle N. Baustert, Michael F. Salvador, Bekir Turedi, Abdullah Y. Alsalloum, Khulud Almasabi, Konstantinos Kotsovos, Issam Gereige, Liang Sheng Liao, Joseph M. Luther, Kenneth R. GrahamOmar F. Mohammed, Stefaan De Wolf, Osman M. Bakr

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Solution-processed organic semiconductor layers on rough surfaces tend to vary widely in thickness, significantly hindering charge extraction in relevant optoelectronic devices. Herein, we report the photoactivated p-doping of hole-transporting material (HTM) to enhance hole extraction for (textured) perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, making the device performance less sensitive to the variation of hole transport layer thickness. We used the ionic compound 4-isopropyl-4′-methyldiphenyliodonium tetrakis(penta-fluorophenyl-borate) (DPITPFB) as a p-type dopant in poly(triaryl amine) (PTAA), which we used as the HTM. We observed that light soaking DPI-TPFB-doped PTAA shows approximately 22 times higher conductivity compared with an undoped PTAA film, which translated into an improved fill factor (FF) for tandem solar cells. Our tandem solar cells achieved an ∼80% FF and 27.8% efficiency and operated at their maximum power point for 200 h without loss of performance, in addition to retaining ∼83% of initial performance over a month of operation in an outdoor environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1987-1993
Number of pages	7
Journal	ACS Energy Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00780
State	Published - Jun 10 2022

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The authors acknowledge the funding support from KAUST and Aramco (Grant No. RGC/3/4556-01-01). J.L., E.A., W.Y., M.D.B., and S.D.W. thank KAUST for funding under Award Nos. OSR-CARF/CCF-3079, OSR-CRG2019-4093, and IED OSR-2019-4208. This work was authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. The NREL affiliated authors acknowledge the Tandem Photovoltaics project funded by the Solar Energy Technology Office within the US DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under contract SETP DE-EE00038266. T.L., K.N.B., and K.R.G. acknowledge funding from the National Science Foundation under award OIA-1929131 (T.L. and K.R.G) and DMR-1905734 (K.N.B. and K.R.G).The views expressed in the Letter do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government.

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DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy	SETP DE-EE00038266
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program	OIA-1929131, DMR-1905734
U.S. Department of Energy EPSCoR	DE-AC36-08GO28308
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Solar Energy Technologies Office
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Saudi Aramco	OSR-CRG2019-4093, IED OSR-2019-4208, RGC/3/4556-01-01, OSR-CARF/CCF-3079

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Materials Chemistry

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Zheng, X., Liu, J., Liu, T., Aydin, E., Chen, M., Yan, W., De Bastiani, M., Allen, T. G., Yuan, S., Kirmani, A. R., Baustert, K. N., Salvador, M. F., Turedi, B., Alsalloum, A. Y., Almasabi, K., Kotsovos, K., Gereige, I., Liao, L. S., Luther, J. M., ... Bakr, O. M. (2022). Photoactivated p-Doping of Organic Interlayer Enables Efficient Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters, 7(6), 1987-1993. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00780

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