Fully inorganic perovskite nanocrystal inks for high-voltage solar cells
Quinten A. Akkerman a, Liberato Manna a, Prachi Rastogi a, Francisco Palazon a, Mirko Prato a, Annamaria Petrozza b, James M. Ball b, Marina Gandini b, Francesco Di Stasio c, Giovanni Bertoni d
a Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, Genova, 16163, Italy
b CNST@Polimi, Via Giovanni Pascoli 70/3, 20133 Milano
c ICFO, Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, num. 3, Castelldefels, 8860, Spain
d IMEM-CNR, , Parco Area delle Scienze 37a, I-43124 Parma, Italy
nanoGe Perovskite Conferences
Proceedings of Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics (ABXPV17)
València, Spain, 2017 March 1st - 2nd
Organizers: Henk Bolink and David Cahen
Poster, 006
Publication date: 18th December 2016

Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have recently gained wide interest following their successful embodiment in solid-state photovoltaic devices with impressive power-conversion efficiencies, while offering a relatively simple and low-cost processability. Although the primary optoelectronic properties of these materials have already met the requirement for high efficiency optoelectronic technologies, industrial scale-up requires more robust processing methods, as well as solvents that are less toxic than the ones that have been commonly used so successfully on the lab-scale.

Here[1] we report a fast, room-temperature synthesis of inks based on CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals using short, low-boiling-point ligands and environmentally friendly solvents. Requiring no lengthy post-synthesis treatments, the inks are directly used to fabricate films of high optoelectronic quality, exhibiting photoluminescence quantum yields higher than 30% and an amplified spontaneous emission threshold as low as 1.5 uJ.cm-2. Finally, we demonstrate the fabrication of perovskite nanocrystal-based solar cells, with open-circuit voltages as high as 1.5V.

Further ongoing development of this work consists in the substitution of bromide anions with iodine through different post-synthesis anion-exchange reaction strategies to yield a lower-bandgap material which will be beneficial for higher power conversion efficiency solar cells, as well as enable the fabrication of the first all-perovskite nanocrystal-based tandem solar cell.

 

[1] Akkerman et al., Nature Energy, 2016, 2, 16194 



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