Carbazole-based enamine: Low-cost and efficient hole transporting material for perovskite solar cells

Nano Energy Elsevier (2017)

Authors:

M Daskeviciene, S Paek, Zhiping Wang, T Malinauskas, G Jokubauskaite, K Rakstys, KT Cho, A Magomedov, V Jankauskas, S Ahmad, Henry J Snaith, V Getautis, MK Nazeeruddin

Abstract:

A simple carbazole-based conjugated enamine V950 was synthesized, fully characterized and incorporated into a perovskite solar cell, which displayed high power conversion efficiency close to 18%. The investigated hole transporting material was synthesized via an extremely simple route (one step, no expensive catalysts, no column chromatography or sublimation purification) from commercially available and relatively inexpensive starting reagents, resulting in more than one order of magnitude lower cost of the final product compared to the commercial 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxy-phenylamine)-9-9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD). This material promises to be a viable p-type organic charge conductor to be employed in the scale-up and manufacturing of perovskite solar modules.

Photovoltaic mixed-cation lead mixed-halide perovskites: links between crystallinity, photo-stability and electronic properties

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 10:1 (2017) 361-369

Authors:

W Rehman, DP McMeekin, JB Patel, RL Milot, MB Johnston, HJ Snaith, LM Herz

A low viscosity, low boiling point, clean solvent system for the rapid crystallisation of highly specular perovskite films

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 10:1 (2017) 145-152

Authors:

NK Noel, SN Habisreutinger, B Wenger, MT Klug, MT Horantner, MB Johnston, RJ Nicholas, DT Moore, HJ Snaith

Inducing swift nucleation morphology control for efficient planar perovskite solar cells by hot-air quenching

Journal of Materials Chemistry A Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5:8 (2017) 3812-3818

Authors:

Seulki Song, Maximilian T Hörantner, Kyoungwon Choi, Henry J Snaith, Taiho Park

Measurement and modelling of dark current decay transients in perovskite solar cells

Journal of Materials Chemistry C Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 5:2 (2017) 452-462

Authors:

Simon EJ O'Kane, Giles Richardson, Adam Pockett, Ralf G Niemann, James M Cave, Nobuya Sakai, Giles E Eperon, Henry J Snaith, Jamie M Foster, Petra J Cameron, Alison B Walker