Impact of grain boundary defect on performance of perovskite solar cell
- Authors
- Iftiquar, S.M.[Iftiquar, S.M.]; Yi, J.[Yi, J.]
- Issue Date
- 1-Jun-2018
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- Carrier recombination loss; Diode ideality factor; Grain boundary defect; Methyl ammonium lead halide perovskite material; Perovskite solar cell; Reverse saturation current density
- Citation
- MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING, v.79, pp.46 - 52
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESSING
- Volume
- 79
- Start Page
- 46
- End Page
- 52
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/19676
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.mssp.2018.01.022
- ISSN
- 1369-8001
- Abstract
- Methyl ammonium lead halide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite is a crystalline material. It shows interesting properties that are suitable for absorber layer of solar cell. An optimized solar cell requires 200-400 nm thick absorber layer. However, the thin absorber layer inevitably contains grain of crystallites and hence grain boundary (GB) defects. The GB defects affect device performance. Therefore, we theoretically investigated the effects of GB defects on performance of solar cells. In this simulation studies, we kept total mid-gap defect density (N-d) as constant at 4x10(17) cm(-3) but varied the GB defect density (GB(dd)) from 3x10(12) cm(-3) to 3x10(22) cm(-3), because of which, the observed short circuit current density (J(sc)) of the cells remain nearly unchanged, but the open circuit voltage (V-oc) and power conversion efficiency (PCE) decreased steadily, while the fill factor (FF) shows a different trend of variation in a region (Region-X, say) where the GB(dd) and the N-d were nearly equal. A further investigation reveals that in the Region-X, a transition happens from defect mediated recombination to GB mediated recombination, where the reverse saturation current density (J(0)) and diode ideality factor (n) of the solar cells, reduce sharply from 3.46x10(-13) A cm(-2) to 2.65x10(-19) A cm(-2) and 1.9 to 1.1, respectively for a cell with 200 nm thick absorber layer. For 400 nm thick absorber layer, reduction of these parameters was 1.96x10(-13) A cm(-2) to 1.20x10(-17) A cm(-2) and 1.8 to 1.2 respectively.
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