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Tailoring interface of lead-halide perovskite solar cells

Show Author's Information Peimei Da,  Gengfeng Zheng( )
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials Fudan UniversityShanghai 200438 China
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Lead-halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted tremendous attention during the past few years owing to their extraordinary electronic and photonic properties. To improve the performances of PSCs, many researchers have focused on the compositional engineering, solvent engineering, and film fabrication methodologies. Interfacial engineering of PSCs has become a burgeoning field in which researchers aim to deeply understand the mechanisms of cells and thereby increase the efficiency and stability of PSCs. This review focuses on the interface tailoring of lead-halide PSCs, including the modification of each layer of the cell structure (i.e., perovskite absorber, electron-transport layers, and hole- transport layers) and the interfacial materials that can be introduced into the PSCs.


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Tailoring interface of lead-halide perovskite solar cells

Show Author's information Peimei Da, Gengfeng Zheng( )
Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Department of Chemistry, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials Fudan UniversityShanghai 200438 China

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Lead-halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted tremendous attention during the past few years owing to their extraordinary electronic and photonic properties. To improve the performances of PSCs, many researchers have focused on the compositional engineering, solvent engineering, and film fabrication methodologies. Interfacial engineering of PSCs has become a burgeoning field in which researchers aim to deeply understand the mechanisms of cells and thereby increase the efficiency and stability of PSCs. This review focuses on the interface tailoring of lead-halide PSCs, including the modification of each layer of the cell structure (i.e., perovskite absorber, electron-transport layers, and hole- transport layers) and the interfacial materials that can be introduced into the PSCs.

Keywords: perovskite solar cell, interface engineering

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Received: 25 October 2016
Revised: 03 December 2016
Accepted: 04 December 2016
Published: 18 January 2017
Issue date: May 2017

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the following funding agencies for supporting this work: the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2013CB934104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21322311 and 21473038), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 14JC1490500), the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning, and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (2011-iChem).

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