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Simulation and analysis of lead-free perovskite solar cells incorporating cerium oxide as electron transporting layer

The great demand for renewable energy has greatly contributed to the development of the solar cell industry. Recently, silicon solar cells have dominated the world market. The ease of processing gives perovskite solar cells (PSCs) an advantage over conventional silicon solar cells. Regular silicon p...

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Published in:RSC advances 2022-11, Vol.12 (5), p.32365-32373
Main Authors: Al-Mousoi, Ali K, Mohammed, Mustafa K. A, Pandey, Rahul, Madan, Jaya, Dastan, Davoud, Ravi, G, Sakthivel, P, Anandha babu, G
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Language:English
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Summary:The great demand for renewable energy has greatly contributed to the development of the solar cell industry. Recently, silicon solar cells have dominated the world market. The ease of processing gives perovskite solar cells (PSCs) an advantage over conventional silicon solar cells. Regular silicon photovoltaics require expensive, multi-step processes accomplished in a specialized ultraclean-chamber facility at an elevated temperature (>1000 °C) and highly vacuumed workspace. Hence, researchers and the solar cell industry have focused on PSC as a great rival to silicon solar cells. Despite this, the highest efficiency was obtained from lead-based PSC, which has a considerably high toxicity issue and low stability related to lead content, so the research field pays attention to lead-free perovskite solar cells. In this digital simulation, tin-based perovskite in this paper, methylammonium tin iodide (MASnI 3 ) with the use of cerium oxide (CeO x ) as an electron transporting layer (ETL) with varying percentages of oxygen, which means different shallow donor densities (ND). The optimum value for the thickness of the absorber layer (perovskite) was made, and the current-voltage characteristics and efficiency calculations were also accomplished for the best cell. Then an improvement was made by changing the ND value of CeO x , and the best-optimized cell parameters were: open circuit voltage ( V OC ) of 0.92 V, short circuit current density ( J SC ) of 30.79 mA cm −2 , power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 17.77%, and fill factor (FF) of 62.86%. In this digital simulation, tin-based with the use of CeO x as an ETL with varying percentages of oxygen has been investigated.
ISSN:2046-2069
2046-2069
DOI:10.1039/d2ra05957f