Highly flexible, high-performance perovskite solar cells with adhesion promoted AuCl3-doped graphene electrodes

Jin Hyuck Heo, Dong Hee Shin, Min Hyeok Jang, Myung Lae Lee, Man Gu Kang, Sang Hyuk Im

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    Abstract

    Super flexible TCO-free FAPbI3-xBrx planar type inverted perovskite solar cells with a 17.9% power conversion efficiency under 1 sun conditions were demonstrated by introducing an APTES (3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane) adhesion promoter between a PET flexible substrate and a AuCl3-doped single-layer graphene transparent electrode (TCE). Due to the formation of covalent bonds by the APTES inter-layer, the AuCl3-GR/APTES/PET substrate had excellent flexibility, whereas the AuCl3-GR/PET substrate and the ITO/PET substrate had significant degradation of the sheet resistance after a bending test due to the break-off or delamination of AuCl3-GR from the PET substrate and the cracking of ITO. Accordingly, the perovskite solar cells constructed on the AuCl3-GR/APTES/PET TCE substrate exhibited excellent bending stability and they maintained their PCE at over 90% of the initial value after 100 bending cycles at R ≥ 4 mm.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)21146-21152
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry A
    Volume5
    Issue number40
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This study was supported by the Institute for Information & Communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. B0117-16-1004), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) under the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (Basic Science Research Program (No. 2014R1A5A1009799), the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Change (No. 2015M1A2A2055631) and the Global Frontier R&D Program of the Center for Multiscale Energy Systems (No. 2012M3A6A7054855)) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy, Republic of Korea (New & Renewable Energy Core Technology Program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) (No. 20163010012470)).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Chemistry
    • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
    • General Materials Science

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