Fabrication of Highly Efficient Pervoskite Solar Cells Using Simple Single-step Solution Method
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Abstract
This article presents optical property, crystal structure, and photovoltaic performance
of perovskite solar cell (PSC) in n-i-p structure using simple single-step solution method with anti-solvent drip. The fabricated PSC exhibited a relatively high photovoltaic performance with the best power conversion efficiency of 15.8% under forward bias scan. The relatively high photovoltaic performance was probably resulted from the high crystallization, the high absorption coefficient, and the crack-like void-free on the surface of the perovskite absorbers.
Keywords:
Perovskite solar cell, thin film, wet processing, interfacial engineering.
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