TY - JOUR A1 - Caprioglio, Pietro A1 - Zu, Fengshuo A1 - Wolff, Christian Michael A1 - Prieto, Jose A. Marquez A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Becker, Pascal A1 - Koch, Norbert A1 - Unold, Thomas A1 - Rech, Bernd A1 - Albrecht, Steve A1 - Neher, Dieter T1 - High open circuit voltages in pin-type perovskite solar cells through strontium addition JF - Sustainable Energy & Fuels N2 - The incorporation of even small amounts of strontium (Sr) into lead-base hybrid quadruple cation perovskite solar cells results in a systematic increase of the open circuit voltage (V-oc) in pin-type perovskite solar cells. We demonstrate via absolute and transient photoluminescence (PL) experiments how the incorporation of Sr significantly reduces the non-radiative recombination losses in the neat perovskite layer. We show that Sr segregates at the perovskite surface, where it induces important changes of morphology and energetics. Notably, the Sr-enriched surface exhibits a wider band gap and a more n-type character, accompanied with significantly stronger surface band bending. As a result, we observe a significant increase of the quasi-Fermi level splitting in the neat perovskite by reduced surface recombination and more importantly, a strong reduction of losses attributed to non-radiative recombination at the interface to the C-60 electron-transporting layer. The resulting solar cells exhibited a V-oc of 1.18 V, which could be further improved to nearly 1.23 V through addition of a thin polymer interlayer, reducing the non-radiative voltage loss to only 110 meV. Our work shows that simply adding a small amount of Sr to the precursor solutions induces a beneficial surface modification in the perovskite, without requiring any post treatment, resulting in high efficiency solar cells with power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 20.3%. Our results demonstrate very high V-oc values and efficiencies in Sr-containing quadruple cation perovskite pin-type solar cells and highlight the imperative importance of addressing and minimizing the recombination losses at the interface between perovskite and charge transporting layer. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/c8se00509e SN - 2398-4902 VL - 3 IS - 2 SP - 550 EP - 563 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lai, Huagui A1 - Luo, Jincheng A1 - Zwirner, Yannick A1 - Olthof, Selina A1 - Wieczorek, Alexander A1 - Ye, Fangyuan A1 - Jeangros, Quentin A1 - Yin, Xinxing A1 - Akhundova, Fatima A1 - Ma, Tianshu A1 - He, Rui A1 - Kothandaraman, Radha K. A1 - Chin, Xinyu A1 - Gilshtein, Evgeniia A1 - Muller, Andre A1 - Wang, Changlei A1 - Thiesbrummel, Jarla A1 - Siol, Sebastian A1 - Prieto, Jose Marquez A1 - Unold, Thomas A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Chen, Cong A1 - Tiwari, Ayodhya N. A1 - Zhao, Dewei A1 - Fu, Fan T1 - High-performance flexible all-Perovskite tandem solar cells with reduced V-OC-deficit in wide-bandgap subcell JF - Advanced energy materials N2 - Among various types of perovskite-based tandem solar cells (TSCs), all-perovskite TSCs are of particular attractiveness for building- and vehicle-integrated photovoltaics, or space energy areas as they can be fabricated on flexible and lightweight substrates with a very high power-to-weight ratio. However, the efficiency of flexible all-perovskite tandems is lagging far behind their rigid counterparts primarily due to the challenges in developing efficient wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite solar cells on the flexible substrates as well as their low open-circuit voltage (V-OC). Here, it is reported that the use of self-assembled monolayers as hole-selective contact effectively suppresses the interfacial recombination and allows the subsequent uniform growth of a 1.77 eV WBG perovskite with superior optoelectronic quality. In addition, a postdeposition treatment with 2-thiopheneethylammonium chloride is employed to further suppress the bulk and interfacial recombination, boosting the V-OC of the WBG top cell to 1.29 V. Based on this, the first proof-of-concept four-terminal all-perovskite flexible TSC with a power conversion efficiency of 22.6% is presented. When integrating into two-terminal flexible tandems, 23.8% flexible all-perovskite TSCs with a superior V-OC of 2.1 V is achieved, which is on par with the V-OC reported on the 28% all-perovskite tandems grown on the rigid substrate. KW - all-perovskite tandems KW - flexible tandem solar cells KW - perovskite KW - V OC-deficit KW - wide-bandgap Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202202438 SN - 1614-6832 SN - 1614-6840 VL - 12 IS - 45 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Wei A1 - Tao, Chen A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Jin, Hui A1 - Stephen, Meera A1 - Lin, Qianqian A1 - Nagiri, Ravi C. R. A1 - Burn, Paul L. A1 - Gentle, Ian R. T1 - Hole-transporting materials for low donor content organic solar cells BT - charge transport and device performance JF - Organic electronics : physics, materials and applications N2 - Low donor content solar cells are an intriguing class of photovoltaic device about which there is still considerable discussion with respect to their mode of operation. We have synthesized a series of triphenylamine-based materials for use in low donor content devices with the electron accepting [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC(7)0BM). The triphenylamine-based materials absorb light in the near UV enabling the PC(7)0BM to be be the main light absorbing organic semiconducting material in the solar cell. It was found that the devices did not operate as classical Schottky junctions but rather photocurrent was generated by hole transfer from the photo-excited PC(7)0BM to the triphenylamine-based donors. We found that replacing the methoxy surface groups with methyl groups on the donor material led to a decrease in hole mobility for the neat films, which was due to the methyl substituted materials having the propensity to aggregate. The thermodynamic drive to aggregate was advantageous for the performance of the low donor content (6 wt%) films. It was found that the 6 wt% donor devices generally gave higher performance than devices containing 50 wt% of the donor. KW - photoexcited hole transfer KW - photocurrent generation KW - synthesis KW - hole KW - mobility KW - low donor content KW - Schottky junction Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2019.105480 SN - 1566-1199 SN - 1878-5530 VL - 76 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Wei A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Jin, Hui A1 - Burn, Paul L. T1 - Hole-transporting poly(dendrimer)s as electron donors for low donor organic solar cells with efficient charge transport JF - Macromolecules : a publication of the American Chemical Society N2 - Recent work on bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells has shown that photoexcitation of the electron acceptor followed by photoinduced hole transfer can play a significant role in photocurrent generation. To establish a clear understanding of the role of the donor in the photoinduced hole transfer process, we have synthesized a series of triphenylamine-based hole-transporting poly(dendrimer)s with mechanically flexible nonconjugated backbones via ring-opening metathesis polymerization and used them in low donor content solar cells. The poly(dendrimer)s were found to retain the hole transporting properties of the parent dendrimer, with hole mobilities of similar to 10(-3) cm(2)/(V s) for solution processed neat films. However, when blended with [6,6]-phenyl-C-70-butyric acid methyl ester (PC70BM), the best performing poly(dendrimer) was found to form films that had balanced and relatively high hole/electron mobilities of similar to 5 x 10(-4) cm(2) /(V s). In contrast, at the same concentration the parent dendrimer:PC70BM blend was found to have a hole mobility of 4 orders of magnitude less than the electron mobility. The balanced hole and electron mobilities for the 6 wt % poly(dendrimer):PC70BM blend led to an absence of second-order bimolecular recombination losses at the maximum power point and resulted in a fill factor of 0.65 and a PCE 2.1% for the devices, which was almost three times higher than the cells composed of the parent dendrimer:PC70BM blends. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00520 SN - 0024-9297 SN - 1520-5835 VL - 53 IS - 8 SP - 2902 EP - 2911 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saliba, Michael A1 - Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo A1 - Wolff, Christian Michael A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Phung, Thi Thuy Nga A1 - Albrecht, Steve A1 - Neher, Dieter A1 - Abate, Antonio T1 - How to Make over 20% Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells in Regular (n-i-p) and Inverted (p-i-n) Architectures JF - Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society N2 - Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are currently one of the most promising photovoltaic technologies for highly efficient and cost-effective solar energy production. In only a few years, an unprecedented progression of preparation procedures and material compositions delivered lab-scale devices that have now reached record power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) higher than 20%, competing with most established solar cell materials such as silicon, CIGS, and CdTe. However, despite a large number of researchers currently involved in this topic, only a few groups in the world can reproduce >20% efficiencies on a regular n-i-p architecture. In this work, we present detailed protocols for preparing PSCs in regular (n-i-p) and inverted (p-i-n) architectures with >= 20% PCE. We aim to provide a comprehensive, reproducible description of our device fabrication , protocols. We encourage the practice of reporting detailed and transparent protocols that can be more easily reproduced by other laboratories. A better reporting standard may, in turn, accelerate the development of perovskite solar cells and related research fields. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00136 SN - 0897-4756 SN - 1520-5002 VL - 30 IS - 13 SP - 4193 EP - 4201 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER - TY - GEN A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Grischek, Max A1 - Caprioglio, Pietro A1 - Wolff, Christian Michael A1 - Gutierrez-Partida, Emilio A1 - Peña-Camargo, Francisco A1 - Rothhardt, Daniel A1 - Zhang, Shanshan A1 - Raoufi, Meysam A1 - Wolansky, Jakob A1 - Abdi-Jalebi, Mojtaba A1 - Stranks, Samuel D. A1 - Albrecht, Steve A1 - Kirchartz, Thomas A1 - Neher, Dieter T1 - How to quantify the efficiency potential of neat perovskite films BT - Perovskite semiconductors with an implied efficiency exceeding 28% T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Perovskite photovoltaic (PV) cells have demonstrated power conversion efficiencies (PCE) that are close to those of monocrystalline silicon cells; however, in contrast to silicon PV, perovskites are not limited by Auger recombination under 1-sun illumination. Nevertheless, compared to GaAs and monocrystalline silicon PV, perovskite cells have significantly lower fill factors due to a combination of resistive and non-radiative recombination losses. This necessitates a deeper understanding of the underlying loss mechanisms and in particular the ideality factor of the cell. By measuring the intensity dependence of the external open-circuit voltage and the internal quasi-Fermi level splitting (QFLS), the transport resistance-free efficiency of the complete cell as well as the efficiency potential of any neat perovskite film with or without attached transport layers are quantified. Moreover, intensity-dependent QFLS measurements on different perovskite compositions allows for disentangling of the impact of the interfaces and the perovskite surface on the non-radiative fill factor and open-circuit voltage loss. It is found that potassium-passivated triple cation perovskite films stand out by their exceptionally high implied PCEs > 28%, which could be achieved with ideal transport layers. Finally, strategies are presented to reduce both the ideality factor and transport losses to push the efficiency to the thermodynamic limit. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1434 KW - non-radiative interface recombination KW - perovskite solar cells KW - photoluminescence Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-516622 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 17 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Grischek, Max A1 - Caprioglio, Pietro A1 - Wolff, Christian Michael A1 - Gutierrez-Partida, Emilio A1 - Peña-Camargo, Francisco A1 - Rothhardt, Daniel A1 - Zhang, Shanshan A1 - Raoufi, Meysam A1 - Wolansky, Jakob A1 - Abdi-Jalebi, Mojtaba A1 - Stranks, Samuel D. A1 - Albrecht, Steve A1 - Kirchartz, Thomas A1 - Neher, Dieter T1 - How to quantify the efficiency potential of neat perovskite films BT - Perovskite semiconductors with an implied efficiency exceeding 28% JF - Advanced Materials N2 - Perovskite photovoltaic (PV) cells have demonstrated power conversion efficiencies (PCE) that are close to those of monocrystalline silicon cells; however, in contrast to silicon PV, perovskites are not limited by Auger recombination under 1-sun illumination. Nevertheless, compared to GaAs and monocrystalline silicon PV, perovskite cells have significantly lower fill factors due to a combination of resistive and non-radiative recombination losses. This necessitates a deeper understanding of the underlying loss mechanisms and in particular the ideality factor of the cell. By measuring the intensity dependence of the external open-circuit voltage and the internal quasi-Fermi level splitting (QFLS), the transport resistance-free efficiency of the complete cell as well as the efficiency potential of any neat perovskite film with or without attached transport layers are quantified. Moreover, intensity-dependent QFLS measurements on different perovskite compositions allows for disentangling of the impact of the interfaces and the perovskite surface on the non-radiative fill factor and open-circuit voltage loss. It is found that potassium-passivated triple cation perovskite films stand out by their exceptionally high implied PCEs > 28%, which could be achieved with ideal transport layers. Finally, strategies are presented to reduce both the ideality factor and transport losses to push the efficiency to the thermodynamic limit. KW - non-radiative interface recombination KW - perovskite solar cells KW - photoluminescence Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202000080 SN - 0935-9648 SN - 1521-4095 VL - 32 IS - 17 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - GEN A1 - Krückemeier, Lisa A1 - Rau, Uwe A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Kirchartz, Thomas T1 - How to report record open-circuit voltages in lead-halide perovskite solar cells T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Open-circuit voltages of lead-halide perovskite solar cells are improving rapidly and are approaching the thermodynamic limit. Since many different perovskite compositions with different bandgap energies are actively being investigated, it is not straightforward to compare the open-circuit voltages between these devices as long as a consistent method of referencing is missing. For the purpose of comparing open-circuit voltages and identifying outstanding values, it is imperative to use a unique, generally accepted way of calculating the thermodynamic limit, which is currently not the case. Here a meta-analysis of methods to determine the bandgap and a radiative limit for open-circuit voltage is presented. The differences between the methods are analyzed and an easily applicable approach based on the solar cell quantum efficiency as a general reference is proposed. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1194 KW - Shockley-Queisser model KW - bandgap KW - fill factor losses KW - nonradiative voltage losses KW - photovoltaics KW - radiative limit KW - recombination Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-525289 SN - 1866-8372 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krückemeier, Lisa A1 - Rau, Uwe A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Kirchartz, Thomas T1 - How to report record open-circuit voltages in lead-halide perovskite solar cells JF - Advanced energy materials N2 - Open-circuit voltages of lead-halide perovskite solar cells are improving rapidly and are approaching the thermodynamic limit. Since many different perovskite compositions with different bandgap energies are actively being investigated, it is not straightforward to compare the open-circuit voltages between these devices as long as a consistent method of referencing is missing. For the purpose of comparing open-circuit voltages and identifying outstanding values, it is imperative to use a unique, generally accepted way of calculating the thermodynamic limit, which is currently not the case. Here a meta-analysis of methods to determine the bandgap and a radiative limit for open-circuit voltage is presented. The differences between the methods are analyzed and an easily applicable approach based on the solar cell quantum efficiency as a general reference is proposed. KW - bandgap KW - fill factor losses KW - nonradiative voltage losses KW - photovoltaics KW - radiative limit KW - recombination KW - Shockley-Queisser model Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902573 SN - 1614-6832 SN - 1614-6840 VL - 10 IS - 1 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zhang, Shanshan A1 - Stolterfoht, Martin A1 - Armin, Ardalan A1 - Lin, Qianqian A1 - Zu, Fengshuo A1 - Sobus, Jan A1 - Jin, Hui A1 - Koch, Norbert A1 - Meredith, Paul A1 - Burn, Paul L. A1 - Neher, Dieter T1 - Interface Engineering of Solution-Processed Hybrid Organohalide Perovskite Solar Cells JF - ACS applied materials & interfaces N2 - Engineering the interface between the perovskite absorber and the charge-transporting layers has become an important method for improving the charge extraction and open-circuit voltage (V-OC) of hybrid perovskite solar cells. Conjugated polymers are particularly suited to form the hole-transporting layer, but their hydrophobicity renders it difficult to solution-process the perovskite absorber on top. Herein, oxygen plasma treatment is introduced as a simple means to change the surface energy and work function of hydrophobic polymer interlayers for use as p-contacts in perovskite solar cells. We find that upon oxygen plasma treatment, the hydrophobic surfaces of different prototypical p-type polymers became sufficiently hydrophilic to enable subsequent perovskite junction processing. In addition, the oxygen plasma treatment also increased the ionization potential of the polymer such that it became closer to the valance band energy of the perovskite. It was also found that the oxygen plasma treatment could increase the electrical conductivity of the p-type polymers, facilitating more efficient charge extraction. On the basis of this concept, inverted MAPbI(3) perovskite devices with different oxygen plasma-treated polymers such as P3HT, P3OT, polyTPD, or PTAA were fabricated with power conversion efficiencies of up to 19%. KW - organohalide lead perovskites KW - solar cells KW - surface wetting KW - work function KW - oxygen plasma KW - transport layer Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02503 SN - 1944-8244 VL - 10 IS - 25 SP - 21681 EP - 21687 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER -