Inverted perovskite solar cells with enhanced lifetime and thermal stability enabled by a metallic tantalum disulfide buffer layer
Konstantinos Chatzimanolis, Konstantinos Rogdakis, Dimitris Tsikritzis, Nikolaos Tzoganakis, Marinos Tountas, Miron Krassas, Sebastiano Bellani, Leyla Najafi, Beatriz Martín‐García, Reinier Oropesa‐Nuñez, Mirko Prato, Gabriele Bianca, Iva Plutnarová, Zdeněk Sofer, Francesco Bonaccorso, Emmanuel Kymakis
Abstract
buffer layer retards the intrinsic, thermally activated degradation processes of the PSCs. Notably, the devices retain more than the 80% of their initial PCE over 330 h under continuous 1 Sun illumination at 65 °C.
Topics & Concepts
Materials scienceEnergy conversion efficiencyPerovskite (structure)Layer (electronics)OptoelectronicsThermal stabilityFabricationBuffer (optical fiber)Degradation (telecommunications)TantalumNanotechnologyChemical engineeringElectronic engineeringComputer scienceMedicineEngineeringPathologyTelecommunicationsMetallurgyAlternative medicinePerovskite Materials and ApplicationsConducting polymers and applicationsOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes Research