Recent Advances in Fabrication Techniques of Perovskite Solar Cells: A Review

Abstract

Abstract:In this study, thorough review is performed on various reported fabrication techniques of the Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC) and the Hole Transport Materials (HTM) layer, in order to provide a critical insight on the direction for further advancement in related fields as well as a better understanding on the device physics. So far, the best short-circuit current density of 22.9 mA/cm 2 has been reported in CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3-x Cl x scaffold by TiCl 4 nanorods treated by NRS and the best open circuit voltage of 0.763V has been reported in TiO 2 /perovskite/spiro-OMeTAD/Au. On the other hand, so far the highest PCE of the PSCs reported in the literature is 19.3%. Interestingly, PSC with 200nm mesoporous TiO 2 has been reported to achieve PCE value of 16.46%. A 5-layer TiO 2 /perovskite/spiroOMeTAD/Au integrated with 40 nm ZnO thin film has been reported to achieve Fill Factor (FF) of 76%. Although promising data has been obtained through numerous researches, there are still many other optimizations yet to be done before mass commercialization of PSC is possible. Optimizing the fabrication process of carrier transport material as well as the incorporation of sensitizer into the device structure are the key aspects that should be focused on in future researches.

Anti-perovskites for photovoltaics: materials development and challenges

“…(1) Device fabrication: One of the main reason of the popularity of perovskite solar cell is easy, low-cost solutionbased fabrication techniques [12,16,26,[94][95][96]. Unlike perovskite, anti-perovskite materials are hardly explored experimentally.…”

“…Mono-crystalline, single junction concentrator silicon solar cell has achieved a record-breaking efficiency of 27.6% [3], however, the cost is one of the main concerns. There have primarily been two advances in photovoltaic technology in recent years: first, the cost reduction in silicon photovoltaic [4][5][6] and the other one is the development of metal halide perovskite as a photovoltaic absorber material [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite has already reached up to 25.7% within only a few years, comparable to the PCE value of commercially available silicon solar cells [3].…”