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A Cost‐Effective D‐A‐D Type Hole‐Transport Material Enabling 20% Efficiency Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells †
Author(s) -
Huang Jiachen,
Yang Jie,
Sun Huiliang,
Feng Kui,
Liao Qiaogan,
Li Bolin,
Yan He,
Guo Xugang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
chinese journal of chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1614-7065
pISSN - 1001-604X
DOI - 10.1002/cjoc.202100022
Subject(s) - dopant , chemistry , passivation , energy conversion efficiency , perovskite (structure) , acceptor , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , doping , materials science , organic chemistry , physics , layer (electronics) , engineering , condensed matter physics
Main observation and conclusion High‐performance, cost‐effective hole‐transport materials (HTMs) are greatly desired for the commercialization of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs). Herein, two new HTMs, TPA‐FO and TPA‐PDO, are devised and synthesized, which have a donor‐acceptor‐donor (D‐A‐D) type molecule design featuring carbonyl group‐functionalized arenes as the acceptor (A) units. The carbonyl group at the central core of HTMs can not only tune frontier molecular orbital (FMO) energy levels and surface wettability, but also can enable efficient surface passivation effects, resulting in reduced recombination loss. When employed as HTMs in inverted PVSCs without using dopant, TPA‐FO with one carbonyl group yields a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.24%, which is among the highest values reported in the inverted PVSCs with dopant‐free HTMs. More importantly, the facile one‐step synthetic process enables a low cost of 30 USD g –1 for TPA‐FO, much cheaper than the most studied HTMs used for high‐efficiency dopant‐free PVSCs. These results demonstrate the potential of D‐A‐D type molecules with carbonyl group‐functionalized arene core in developing the low‐cost dopant‐free HTMs toward highly efficient PVSCs.