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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13391-018-0075-5

Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells by Copper Chloride (CuCl2) as an Additive in Single Solvent Perovskite Precursor  

Kayesh, Md. Emrul (Photovoltaic Materials Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))
Matsuishi, Kiyoto (Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
Chowdhury, Towhid H. (Photovoltaic Materials Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))
Kaneko, Ryuji (Photovoltaic Materials Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))
Noda, Takeshi (Photovoltaic Materials Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))
Islam, Ashraful (Photovoltaic Materials Group, Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))
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Electronic Materials Letters / v.14, no.6, 2018 , pp. 712-717 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this letter, we have introduced copper chloride ($CuCl_2$) as an additive in the $CH_3NH_3PbI_3$ precursor solution to improve the surface morphology and crystallinity of $CH_3NH_3PbI_3$ films in a single solvent system. Our optimized perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with 2.5 mol% $CuCl_2$ additive showed best power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.22%. The PCE of the PSCs fabricated by $CuCl_2$ (2.5 mol%) additive engineering was 56% higher than the PSC fabricated with pristine $CH_3NH_3PbI_3$.
Keywords
Perovskite solar cell; $CuCl_2$; Morphology; Crystallinity; High efficiency;
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