Issue 8, 2019

Vacuum-deposited perovskite photovoltaics for highly efficient environmental light energy harvesting

Abstract

The performance of vacuum-deposited organometal halide perovskite devices under low-intensity illumination was investigated. The low defect density of the vacuum-deposited perovskite thin film facilitates the development of a high performance device with low-cost C60 as the electron transporting layer, which is superior to solution-processed cells made by a 2-step spin-casting method with expensive fullerene derivatives. The small-area vacuum-deposited devices exhibited high power conversion efficiencies and output power densities of up to 30.1% and 94.9 μW cm−2 at 1000 lux and 28.5% and 18.1 μW cm−2 at 200 lux, respectively. The large-area vacuum-deposited devices with an active area of 5.68 cm2 showed high reproducibility and exhibited high power conversion efficiencies and output power densities up to 24.9% and 77.6 μW cm−2 at 1000 lux and 21.9% and 13.8 μW cm−2 at 200 lux, respectively. Moreover, the small- and large-area devices also showed good stability and a negligible efficiency decrease in one year. The high performance and high stability results indicate that vacuum-deposited perovskite photovoltaics are one of the most promising energy harvesters for low-power electronics in the future.

Graphical abstract: Vacuum-deposited perovskite photovoltaics for highly efficient environmental light energy harvesting

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Dec 2018
Accepted
13 Jan 2019
First published
14 Jan 2019

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019,7, 3612-3617

Vacuum-deposited perovskite photovoltaics for highly efficient environmental light energy harvesting

C. Chen, W. Lee, S. Hsiao, W. Tsai, L. Yang, H. Lin, H. Chou and H. Lin, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 3612 DOI: 10.1039/C8TA11515J

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