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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Surface Treatment of Cu:NiOx Hole-Transporting Layer Using β-Alanine for Hysteresis-Free and Thermally Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells.

Fedros Galatopoulos, Ioannis T Papadas, Apostolos Ioakeimidis, Polyvios Eleftheriou, Stelios A Choulis

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Fedros GalatopoulosMolecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus.
Ioannis T PapadasMolecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus.
Apostolos IoakeimidisMolecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0003-3974-6574
Polyvios EleftheriouMolecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus.
Stelios A ChoulisMolecular Electronics and Photonics Research Unit, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603 Limassol, Cyprus.ORCID 0000-0002-7899-6296

Funding

H2020 European Research Council 647311
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) using a Cu:NiOx hole transporting layer (HTL) often exhibit stability issues and in some cases J/V hysteresis. In this work, we developed a β-alanine surface treatment process on Cu:NiOx HTL that provides J/V hysteresis-free, highly efficient, and thermally stable inverted PSCs. The improved device performance due to β-alanine-treated Cu:NiOx HTL is attributed to the formation of an intimate Cu:NiOx/perovskite interface and reduced charge trap density in the bulk perovskite active layer. The β-alanine surface treatment process on Cu:NiOx HTL eliminates major thermal degradation mechanisms, providing 40 times increased lifetime performance under accelerated heat lifetime conditions. By using the proposed surface treatment, we report optimized devices with high power conversion efficiency (PCE) (up to 15.51%) and up to 1000 h lifetime under accelerated heat lifetime conditions (60 °C, N

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amino acidscharge trapsdegradationhysteresismetal oxidesoxygen vacanciesperovskite solar cellssurface treatmentthermal stabilityβ-alanine

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PMID33019734
PMCPMC7599611

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