Vol.60, No.7, 545 ~ 551, 2022
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Title |
Properties of Perovskite Solar Cells with Low Temperature Sintered SnO2 Electron Transport Layers |
김호준 Hojun Kim , 이용욱 Yongwook Lee , 오영준 Yeongjun Oh , 김광배 Kwangbae Kim , 송오성 Ohsung Song |
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Abstract |
This study investigated the photovoltaic properties and microstructure of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with an ITO/SnO2/perovskite/HTL/Au electrode configuration, developed with varying sintering temperatures (100~200℃). The goal was to use SnO2 ink as the electron transport layer (ETL) by lowtemperature sintering. TGA-DTA analysis was conducted to determine the optimum sintering temperature of the SnO2 ink and the photovoltaic properties were examined by solar simulator analysis. To analyze the microstructure, a 3D profiler, optical microscope, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used. The TGA-DTA analysis results show that SnO2 ink was effectively sintered at the low temperature of 80℃ and above. As for the photovoltaic(PV) properties, the PV efficiency was approximately 15% at 120~150℃, and increased to a maximum of 17.16% at 180℃, and then fell to 12% at 200℃. The RMS value, a representation of surface roughness, of the SnO2 layer according to sintering temperature incrementally decreased, reached its lowest at 180℃, before finally increasing. The microstructure analysis showed that the perovskite layer formed on the SnO2 at a sintering temperature of 180℃ had a relatively greater grain size of 402 nm and a thickness of 432 nm, thereby improving the PSC’s PV properties. These results suggest it is possible to implement a PCS with SnO2 ETL by low temperature sintering process.
(Received 23 February, 2022; Accepted 5 April, 2022) |
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Key Words |
SnO2 sub> ink, low temperature sintering, MAPbI3 sub> perovskite, roughness |
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