Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Dongdaemoo-gu, 130-701 Seoul, Korea
  • 2 Solar Energy Research Institute, National University of Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Sci Rep, 2016 06 09;6:27773.
PMID: 27277388 DOI: 10.1038/srep27773

Abstract

Perovskite solar cells are becoming one of the leading technologies to reduce our dependency on traditional power sources. However, the frequently used component poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (

PEDOT: PSS) has several shortcomings, such as an easily corroded indium-tin-oxide (ITO) interface at elevated temperatures and induced electrical inhomogeneity. Herein, we propose solution-processed nitrogen-doped graphene oxide nanoribbons (NGONRs) as a hole transport layer (HTL) in perovskite solar cells, replacing the conducting polymer

PEDOT: PSS. The conversion efficiency of NGONR-based perovskite solar cells has outperformed a control device constructed using

PEDOT: PSS. Moreover, our proposed NGONR-based devices also demonstrate a negligible current hysteresis along with improved stability. This work provides an effective route for substituting

PEDOT: PSS as the effective HTL.

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