Qiuju Liu,Yang Liu,Hu Liu,Qingyong Tian,Bin Fan,Hua Bai
Room-temperature-processed (RTP) electron-transport layer (ETL) is a prerequisite for fabricating fully RTP perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, an RTP-Zn 2 SnO 4 (ZSO) ETL is deposited for achieving RTP-PSCs by magnetron sputtering using ZnO and SnO 2 targets. The ZSO ETL exhibits great electrical properties, better band alignment, and yields increased grain size of the perovskite grown on it, thus facilitating electron extraction from the perovskite layer to the ETL. As a result, a champion power conversion efficiency of 21.06% is achieved in the ZSO-based device, which is the highest value for RTP-PSCs. The ZSO-based PSCs also exhibit high device stability. Moreover, the efficiency of a large-area perovskite module based on ZSO ETL reaches 17.79%.
Antimony chalcogenide is a promising absorber material for photovoltaic (PV) cells because of its tunable band gap, strong optical absorption, earth-abundant, and nontoxic constituents. Here, a novel hydrazine-free approach for fabricating antimony chalcogenide films prepared via spray pyrolysis deposition with further selenylation, as well as high performance solar cells are reported. The fabricated antimony chalcogenide solar cells exhibits remarkably high open-circuit voltage ( V OC ) comparing with that of Sb 2 Se 3 and Sb 2 S 3 devices. The distribution of Se during the selenylation process via refering to the Fick's second law is discussed. The results show that the selenized absorber has tremendously improved absorbance for visible light and a cascade-type energy level from surface to bulk, resulting in an ideal energy level matching for p-n junction. By introducing an efficient buffer layer, the detrimental short-circuit is avoided by reducing the cracks. Finally, 4.57% of the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the solar cell is achieved. Furthermore, a module with a large-scale active area of 21 cm 2 is successfully fabricated, which shows a PCE of 3.19%, and a V OC of 3.42 V. The present work suggests that the antimony chalcogenide solar cells are promising for industrial application.