Highly efficient and stable planar perovskite solar cells with reduced graphene oxide nanosheets as electrode interlayer

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple solution and room-temperature processed reduced graphene oxide (RGO) as a novel hole-transporting material (HTM) to guarantee highly efficient and highly stable CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells (PeSCs). The effects of RGO HTM are systemically investigated in terms of PeSC efficiency, PeSC stability, morphology of perovskite film, recombination dynamics, and charge-transport through CH3NH3PbI3/HTM interface. The resultant PeSC with a planar configuration of glass/ITO/RGO/CH3NH3PbI3/PC61BM/bathocuproine (BCP)/Ag exhibits improved device efficiency (maximum PCE of 10.8%) with high reproducibility than those of the reference devices using conventional PEDOT:PSS and GO HTMs. Also, the RGO-based PeSCs show highly desirable device stability in comparison to the PEDOT:PSS PeSCs. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.