Small molecule dopant-free dual hole transporting material for conventional and inverted perovskite solar cells

Journal article

Interfacial layers play very important roles in perovskite solar cells and the enormous diversity of reported materials has contributed to the outstanding progress of these photovoltaic devices. Nevertheless, the interfacial materials are commonly developed to be used in solar cells with a specific architecture, either conventional (n-i-p) or inverted (p-i-n). We report the exceptional performance of a small molecule, whose structural features, based on hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly, allow its application as hole transporting layer (HTL) in n-i-p and p-i-n perovskite solar cells with the same efficiency. This particularity has been investigated through a comparative study with a very similar molecule that cannot self-assemble, evidencing the benefits of the structural integrity of hydrogen bonded HTLs in terms of charge extraction and recombination, independently on the device architecture.

Authors: Más-Montoya, M; Gómez, P; Wang, J; Janssen, RAJ; Curiel, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Journal: Materials Chemistry Frontiers
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 18
• Pages: 4019-4028
• Publication date: 2023-09-11
• DOI: 10.1039/d3qm00425b
• EISSN: 2052-1537
• ISSN: 2052-1537
• Language: English
• Keywords: Crystallography; Dopant; Organic chemistry; Optoelectronics; Doping; Small molecule; Chemistry; Dual (grammatical number); Molecule; Perovskite (structure); Materials science