Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells

The third generation of solar cells, based on organic/inorganic perovskite absorbers promises to bring a breakthrough to the energy production with photovoltaic devices. Up-to-date, best results have been achieved with lead halide perovskite, reaching an efficiency of 20,1%. This project aims to pr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luna Puerta, Lidia
Other Authors: Pablo P. Boix
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62276
_version_ 1811688338324717568
author Luna Puerta, Lidia
author2 Pablo P. Boix
author_facet Pablo P. Boix
Luna Puerta, Lidia
author_sort Luna Puerta, Lidia
collection NTU
description The third generation of solar cells, based on organic/inorganic perovskite absorbers promises to bring a breakthrough to the energy production with photovoltaic devices. Up-to-date, best results have been achieved with lead halide perovskite, reaching an efficiency of 20,1%. This project aims to provide a comprehensive study to introduce Zinc (Zn) element in the structure of an inorganic and efficient lead free perovskite. In the first part of the project the Zn was included independently so that it could occupy substitutional sites of Tin (Sn) and in the second part two mixtures of perovskite, one based on Sn, the second based on Zn, were mixed in different stoichiometric ratios to produce the hybrid Sn-Zn perovskite. The cells were produced by depositing the perovskite as well as the HTM by spincoating method. Different rations of Zn doping were tested, and best results achieved with the following composition of a two-phase perovskite of 80% CsSnI3 and 20% Cs2ZnI4, reaching a fill factor of 0.384 and a PCE of 1.3. Moreover, it was observed that the doping of Sn perovskite with Zn had some limits, since it was shown that for a CsSnxZn(1-x)I3 composition, there was a threshold of x=0.8 for which no more Zn could be introduced in the 3D perovskite, leading to the formation of a second 2D phase of Cs2ZnI4.
first_indexed 2024-10-01T05:30:37Z
format Final Year Project (FYP)
id ntu-10356/62276
institution Nanyang Technological University
language English
last_indexed 2024-10-01T05:30:37Z
publishDate 2015
record_format dspace
spelling ntu-10356/622762023-03-04T15:41:50Z Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells Luna Puerta, Lidia Pablo P. Boix Subodh Gautam Mhaisalkar School of Materials Science and Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Energy materials The third generation of solar cells, based on organic/inorganic perovskite absorbers promises to bring a breakthrough to the energy production with photovoltaic devices. Up-to-date, best results have been achieved with lead halide perovskite, reaching an efficiency of 20,1%. This project aims to provide a comprehensive study to introduce Zinc (Zn) element in the structure of an inorganic and efficient lead free perovskite. In the first part of the project the Zn was included independently so that it could occupy substitutional sites of Tin (Sn) and in the second part two mixtures of perovskite, one based on Sn, the second based on Zn, were mixed in different stoichiometric ratios to produce the hybrid Sn-Zn perovskite. The cells were produced by depositing the perovskite as well as the HTM by spincoating method. Different rations of Zn doping were tested, and best results achieved with the following composition of a two-phase perovskite of 80% CsSnI3 and 20% Cs2ZnI4, reaching a fill factor of 0.384 and a PCE of 1.3. Moreover, it was observed that the doping of Sn perovskite with Zn had some limits, since it was shown that for a CsSnxZn(1-x)I3 composition, there was a threshold of x=0.8 for which no more Zn could be introduced in the 3D perovskite, leading to the formation of a second 2D phase of Cs2ZnI4. Bachelor of Engineering (Materials Engineering) 2015-03-17T04:44:33Z 2015-03-17T04:44:33Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62276 en Nanyang Technological University 45 p. application/pdf
spellingShingle DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Energy materials
Luna Puerta, Lidia
Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title_full Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title_fullStr Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title_full_unstemmed Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title_short Investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
title_sort investigation of the effect of zinc inclusion for tin perovskite based solar cells
topic DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Energy materials
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62276
work_keys_str_mv AT lunapuertalidia investigationoftheeffectofzincinclusionfortinperovskitebasedsolarcells