Themed collection Perovskite solar cells – Topic Highlight

This perspective highlights recent advances in improving the mechanical robustness of FPSCs and prospects to clarify the mechanism between the mechanical behavior and the photoelectric performance.

Halide perovskites are compelling candidates for the next generation of photovoltaic technologies owing to an unprecedented increase in power conversion efficiency and their low cost, facile fabrication and outstanding semiconductor properties.

This research explores the incorporation of 2D materials, BDAI₂ and DMPDAI₂, into perovskite solar cells, demonstrating enhanced efficiency and stability in the resulting devices.

High temperature passivating p-type contacts on textured surfaces with iV_OC up to 725 mV and contact resistance below 90 mΩ cm². 28.25% tandem PK/c-Si solar cells rear side textured with high temperature passivating contacts.

Efficient and sustainable Buchwald-Hartwig amination enables the synthesis of new branched and polymeric HTL materials for perovskite solar cells with performances comparable with those of Spiro-OMeTAD.

C₆₀:BCP (bathocuproine) mixture, significantly improved electron extraction in an all-vacuum processed n-i-p perovskite solar cell.

The N atom in the side chain of the PAN skeleton coordinated with the exposed Pb atom on the CsPbI₃ perovskite, which effectively passivated the defects of CsPbI₃ crystal grains, and the PCE of the CsPb₃I₃-based PSCs improved from 14.36% to 16.21%.

Perovskite solar cells integrated with lower dimensional materials can outperform the environmental performance of conventional solar photovoltaic technologies such as crystalline silicon, CIGS, and CdTe with shorter lifetimes.

An ambient process for the fabrication of HTL-free carbon-based perovskite solar cells at room temperature with the addition of an optimized amount of MACl into the perovskite precursor solution.

Decal of a nickel mesh prepared by photolithography-assisted electroplating on carbon counter-electrode of dye sensitized and perovskite solar cells improves the conductivity of the back contact and the performance of the devices.

We demonstrate the fragility of perovskite solar cells is typically in the small molecule electron transport layer and show strategies for designing more mechanically and operationally robust devices by improving the layers and interfaces.

Insertion of a thin inorganic Fe₃O₄ layer between perovskite and spiro-OMeTAD improves charge extraction and device efficiency and also boosts device shelf-life stability.

Low-cost and facile synthesis routes of hole-transporting materials (HTMs) are promising approaches to minimize the total cost of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) on both laboratory and commercial scales.

Dopant-free hole-transporting materials (HTMs) aim to improve efficiency and stability simultaneously, and are a promising direction for efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs).

Low-temperature of the chlorobenzene antisolvent and trimethylpropylammonium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide ionic liquid at the TiO₂/perovskite interface improves the device efficiency and stability.

We report a chlorine-substituted polythiophene-based, dioxobenzodithiophene-containing conjugated polymer (P2T-Cl) as a promising dopant-free hole transport material in lead halide perovskite solar cells.

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are studied in low-intensity low-temperature (LILT) conditions before and after low energy proton irradiation to characterize device performance at deep space mission-relevant light intensities and temperatures.

Beeswarm plot for over 7000 papers with original perovskite solar cell data, where the area of the circles corresponds to the number of citations the papers had obtained by 2022-03-26 and the colour reflects the top device efficiency in each paper.

The lifetime of inverted PSCs is extended by employing for the first time the hydrophobic conjugated polymer PIDTTDQ. The optimized PIDTTDQ device shows an increased PCE due to the improved HTL/Perovskite interface while having enhanced moisture, light and thermal stability.

A study of the optimization of methylammonium (MA) free perovskite compositions, targeted for their application in hole transport layer (HTL) free perovskite solar cells with a carbon electrode (C-PSCs), is presented.