Additives, Hole Transporting Materials and Spectroscopic Methods to Characterize the Properties of Perovskite Films
Amita Ummadisingu,
Ji-Youn Seo,
Marko Stojanovic,
Shaik M. Zakeeruddin,
Michael Grätzel,
Anders Hagfeldt,
Nick Vlachopoulos,
Michael Saliba
Affiliations
Amita Ummadisingu
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Ji-Youn Seo
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Marko Stojanovic
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Shaik M. Zakeeruddin
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Michael Grätzel
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Anders Hagfeldt
Laboratory of Photomolecular Science École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Nick Vlachopoulos
Laboratory of Photomolecular Science École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. [email protected]
Michael Saliba
Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratory of Photomolecular Science Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering EPFL-FSB-ISIC-LSPM Chemin des Alambics, Station 6 CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.: [email protected]
The achievement of high efficiency and high stability in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) requires optimal selection and evaluation of the various components. After a brief introduction to the perovskite materials and their historical evolution, the first part is devoted to the hole transporting material (HTM), between photoelectrode and dark counter electrode. The basic requirements for an efficient HTM are stated. Subsequently, the most used HTM, spiro-OMeTAD, is compared to alternative HTMs, both small-molecule size species and electronically conducting polymers. The second part is devoted to additives related to the performance of the perovskite light-absorbing material itself. These are related either to the modification of the composition of the material itself or to the optimization of the morphology during the perovskite preparation stage, and their effect is in the enhancement of the power conversion efficiency, the long-term stability, or the reproducibility of the properties of the PSCs. Finally, a number of spectroscopic methods based on the UV-Vis part of the electromagnetic spectrum useful for characterizing the different perovskite material types are described in the last part of this review.
