Parameters influencing the growth of ZnO nanowires as efficient low temperature flexible perovskite-based solar cells

Alex Dymshits; Lior Iagher; Lioz Etgar

doi:10.3390/ma9010060

Parameters influencing the growth of ZnO nanowires as efficient low temperature flexible perovskite-based solar cells

Alex Dymshits, Lior Iagher, Lioz Etgar^*

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Institute of Chemistry

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Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite has proved to be a superior material for photovoltaic solar cells. In this work we investigate the parameters influencing the growth of ZnO nanowires (NWs) for use as an efficient low temperature photoanode in perovskite-based solar cells. The structure of the solar cell is FTO (SnO₂:F)-glass (or PET-ITO (In₂O₃· (SnO₂) (ITO)) on, polyethylene terephthalate (PET)/ZnAc seed layer/ZnO NWs/CH₃NH₃PbI₃/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au. The influence of the growth rate and the diameter of the ZnO NWs on the photovoltaic performance were carefully studied. The ZnO NWs perovskite-based solar cell demonstrates impressive power conversion efficiency of 9.06% on a rigid substrate with current density over 21 mA/cm². In addition, we successfully fabricated flexible perovskite solar cells while maintaining all fabrication processes at low temperature, achieving power conversion efficiency of 6.4% with excellent stability for over 75 bending cycles.

Original language	English
Article number	60
Journal	Materials
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9010060
State	Published - 2016

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Flexible solar cells
Growth rate
Perovskite
Precursor concentration
ZnO nanowires

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