Cellulose acetate-derived ternary-doped hierarchically porous carbons blended perovskite active layers for solar cells and X-ray detectors

Abstract

Herein, we have synthesized hetero-atoms (nitrogen (N), sulfur (S), phosphorus (P))-doped porous carbons (PCs) which upon dispersion in perovskite precursor solution with different (2–8 wt.%) modify its morphology and improve optoelectronic characteristics of the perovskite active layer (AL) results into enhancing efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The results indicate that PCs (6 wt.%) modifies perovskite AL-constructed PSCs and X-ray photodetectors outperform other investigated devices. The excellent PSCs (AL@NSPCPC) demonstrate power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 13.81%, fill factor (FF) 64.77%, current density Jsc (23.518 mA/cm2), and open circuit voltage Voc (0.906 V), which is significantly higher than pristine AL 10.42%, 57.01%, 20.423 mA/cm2, and 0.895 V, respectively. Furthermore, the sample (AL@NSP-CPC) when constructs in the geometry of an X-ray photodetector, shows 15.56 μA/cm2, 4.66 mA/Gy·cm2, 5.26×10−4 cm2/V·s, and 3.58 × 1015 cm−3 of collected charge density (CCD), dark current density (DCD), sensitivity, mobility, and trap density, respectively. Thus, heteroatom-doped PCs modified perovskite layers demonstrate promise for constructing PSCs and X-ray photodetectors opening future research in exploiting these abundant, and inexpensive carbons materials having large mobility and tunable morphology along with surface passivation at perovskite/hole transport layer (HTL) interface to further enhance their photovoltaic parameters.