Dopant-free novel hole-transporting materials based on quinacridone dye for high-performance and humidity-stable mesoporous perovskite solar cells

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Hong, Duc Pham
Jain, Sagar M
Li, Meng
Manzhos, Sergei
Feron, Krishna
Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar
Liu, Zhiyong
Motta, Nunzio
Wang, Hongxia
Durrant, James R
Sonar, Prashant
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2019
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This study reports three newly developed dopant-free hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for perovskite solar cells. The design is based on a quinacridone (QA) dye as the core with three different extended end-capping moieties, namely, acenaphthylene (ACE), triphenylamine (TPA) and diphenylamine (DPA), attached to the QA core. These HTMs were synthesized and used to successfully fabricate in mesoscopic TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/HTM perovskite devices. Under AM 1.5G illumination at 100 mW cm−2, the devices achieved a maximum efficiency of 18.2% for ACE-QA-ACE, 16.6% for TPA-QA-TPA and 15.5% for DPA-QA-DPA without any additives, whereas reference devices with doped spiro-OMeTAD as the HTM achieved a PCE of 15.2%. Notably, the unencapsulated devices based on the novel dopant-free HTMs exhibited impressive stability in comparison with the devices based on doped spiro-OMeTAD under a relative humidity of 75% for 30 days. These linear symmetrical HTMs pave the way to a new class of organic hole-transporting materials for cost-efficient and large-area applications of printed perovskite solar cells.

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Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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7

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10

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Hong, DP; Jain, SM; Li, M; Manzhos, S; Feron, K; Pitchaimuthu, S; Liu, Z; Motta, N; Wang, H; Durrant, JR; Sonar, P, Dopant-free novel hole-transporting materials based on quinacridone dye for high-performance and humidity-stable mesoporous perovskite solar cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019, 7 (10), pp. 5315-5323

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