All-Rounder Low-Cost Dopant-Free D-A-D Hole-Transporting Materials for Efficient Indoor and Outdoor Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

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Hong, Duc Pham
Jain, Sagar M
Li, Meng
Wang, Zhao-Kui
Manzhos, Sergei
Feron, Krishna
Pitchaimuthu, Sudhagar
Liu, Zhiyong
Motta, Nunzio
Durrant, James R
Sonar, Prashant
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A novel biphenyl fumaronitrile as an acceptor and triphenylamine as donor conjugated building blocks are used for the first time to successfully synthesize donor–acceptor–donor molecule (D‐A‐D) 2,3‐bis(4′‐(bis(4‐methoxyphenyl)amino)‐[1,1′‐biphenyl]‐4‐yl)fumaronitrile (TPA‐BPFN‐TPA). The new TPA‐BPFN‐TPA with low‐lying HOMO is used as a dopant‐free hole‐transporting material (HTM) in mesoporous perovskite solar cells. The performance of the solar cells using this new HTM is compared with the traditional 2,2′,7,7′‐tetrakis(N,N′‐di‐p‐methoxyphenylamino)‐ 9,9′‐spirobifluorene (Spiro‐OMeTAD) HTM based devices for outdoor and indoor performance evaluation. Under 1 sun illumination, dopant‐free TPA‐BPFN‐TPA HTM based devices exhibit a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.4%, which is the record efficiency to date among D‐A‐D molecular design based dopant‐free HTMs. Moreover, the stability of unencapsulated TPA‐BPFN‐TPA‐based devices shows improvement over Spiro‐OMeTAD‐based devices in harsh relative humidity condition of 70%. Another exciting feature of the newly developed HTM is that the TPA‐BPFN‐TPA‐based devices exhibit improved PCE of 30% and 20.1% at 1000 lux and 200 lux illuminations, respectively. This new finding provides a solution to fabricate low indoor (low light) and outdoor (1 sun) perovskite solar cell devices with high efficiency for cutting‐edge energy harvesting technology.

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Advanced Electronic Materials

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© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Hong, DP; Jain, SM; Li, M; Wang, Z-K; Manzhos, S; Feron, K; Pitchaimuthu, S; Liu, Z; Motta, N; Durrant, JR; Sonar, P, All-Rounder Low-Cost Dopant-Free D-A-D Hole-Transporting Materials for Efficient Indoor and Outdoor Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2020

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