Abstract
Recently, the simulation of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) via SCAPS-1D has been widely reported. In this study, we adopted SCAPS-1D as a simulation tool for the numerical simulation of lead-free (Pb-free) PSCs. We used methyl ammonium germanium iodide (MAGeI3) as a light absorber, zinc oxysulphide (ZnOS) as an electron transport layer (ETL), and spiro-OMeTAD as a hole transport layer. Further, the thickness of the ZnOS, MAGeI3, and spiro-OMeTAD layers was optimized. The optimal thicknesses of the ZnOS, MAGeI3, and spiro-OMeTAD layers were found to be 100 nm, 550 nm, and 100 nm, respectively. The optimized MAGeI3-based PSCs exhibited excellent power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 21.62%, fill factor (FF) of 84.05%, and Jsc of 14.51 mA/cm2. A fantastic open circuit voltage of 1.77 V was also obtained using SCAPS-1D. We believe that these theoretically optimized parameters and conditions may help improve the experimental efficiency of MAGeI3-based PSCs in the future.
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