Issue 26, 2019

Efficacy beyond 17% via engineering the length and quality of grafts in organic halide perovskite/CNT photovoltaics

Abstract

Pure carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their derivatives grafted with the regiorandom poly(3-dodecyl thiophene) (CNT-g-PDDT) and regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (CNT-g-P3HT) polymers were employed to improve the morphological, optical, and photovoltaic properties of CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells. Although the grafted CNT components improved the cell characteristics, bare CNTs destroyed them. The regioregularity and graft length influences were investigated on the system behavior. The CNT nanostructures grafted with the shorter P3HT backbones demonstrated the best results, i.e., 79.9 Ω, 23.60 mA cm−2, 76%, 0.97 V and 17.40%. This originated from the higher crystalline peak intensities for both P3HT (5.6–5.8°) and CH3NH3PbI3 (14.81, 20.91, 24.11, 29.21 and 32.51°) precursors and also the larger grain sizes (5 (600 nm) versus 50 (490 nm) kDa). The perovskite + CNT-g-P3HT devices, in particular the CNTs with shorter grafts, possessed faster electron transport and lower carrier recombination compared with the other solar cells, as evidenced by the larger short-circuit current density.

Graphical abstract: Efficacy beyond 17% via engineering the length and quality of grafts in organic halide perovskite/CNT photovoltaics

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Apr 2019
Accepted
03 Jun 2019
First published
03 Jun 2019

New J. Chem., 2019,43, 10567-10574

Efficacy beyond 17% via engineering the length and quality of grafts in organic halide perovskite/CNT photovoltaics

S. Agbolaghi, New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 10567 DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ02074H

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