- Enhanced Hole Extraction in Perovskite Solar Cells Through Carbon Nanotubes.
Enhanced Hole Extraction in Perovskite Solar Cells Through Carbon Nanotubes.
The journal of physical chemistry letters (2015-08-19)
Severin N Habisreutinger, Tomas Leijtens, Giles E Eperon, Samuel D Stranks, Robin J Nicholas, Henry J Snaith
PMID26278955
ABSTRACT
Here, we report the use of polymer-wrapped carbon nanotubes as a means to enhance charge extraction through undoped spiro-OMeTAD. With this approach a good solar cell performance is achieved without the implementation of conventional doping methods. We demonstrate that a stratified two-layer architecture of sequentially deposited layers of carbon nanotubes and spiro-OMeTAD, outperforms a conventional blend of the hole-conductor and the carbon nanotubes. We also provide insights into the mechanism of the rapid hole extraction observed in the two-layer approach.