Study of inverted planar CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells fabricated under environmental conditions

Abstract

Organic-inorganic inverted perovskite solar cells have been analyzed. This structure uses organic semiconductors as electron and hole selective electrodes and the perovskite as light harvesting layer. The anti-solvent deposition method is a frequently used techniques in the elaboration of conventional perovskite solar cells (FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/Spiro-OMetad/Au). However, the anti-solvent method is seldom used in the inverted structure. In this work, we use the anti-solvent method to fabricate the perovskite film for solar cells in the ITO/PEDOT:PSS/CH3NH3PbI3/PC61BM/Ag configuration, systematically studying the effect of the anti-solvent dripping time and the relative humidity in cell fabrication and performance. The morphological, optical and photovoltaic analyses indicate that the right combination of these two parameters will result in a preferential crystal growth in the (1 1 0) orientation. This allows the formation of homogeneous pinhole-free films that enhance light harvesting and reduce charge-carrier leakage, hence increasing short circuit current and fill factor to obtain a photo-conversion efficiency of about ∼10%.