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As a low-cost, high stable hole transport material, nickel oxide has been widely used in inverted structure perovskite solar cells in recent years. By far, the most common method of preparing nickel oxide hole transport layers is spin-coating pre-prepared nickel oxide nanoparticles (NiOx NPs), which puts forward high requirement for the particle sizes and solution processing capabilities of NiOx NPs. In this work, the sizes of NiOx NPs are precisely controlled by adjusting the pH value of the system in the synthesis process, and high-quality nickel oxide hole transport layers are then prepared. The experimental results exhibit that the NiOx NPs with sizes of 5–10 nm are obtained at a pH value in a range of 9.5–9.8. More interestingly, the obtained NiOx NPs have good dispersion stability and can achieve long-term dispersion in aqueous solution. Furthermore, the structural composition analysis of NiOx NPs shows that the pH value of the synthesis system does not have a significant effect on the material structure nor composition of the NiOx NP. Surface morphological analysis shows that the NiOx film prepared by the pH-controlled NiOx NPs is rather dense and particularly flat with small surface roughness. It is also found that the film exhibits good hole extraction capability. We also fabricate an inverted perovskite solar cell based on the NiOx film. The device structure is ITO/NiOx/CH3NH3PbI3/PC61BM/Bphen/Ag. It yields a good photovoltaic conversion efficiency (17.39%). In addition, the device is almost hysteresis-free. Our experimental results exhibit that the performance of perovskite solar cells can be effectively improved by precisely controlling the sizes of NiOx NPs through pH values. Our work is expected to facilitate the development of NiOx-based perovskite solar cells.
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Keywords:
- NiOx /
- inverted perovskite solar cell /
- nanoparticle size
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图 1 合成体系pH为(a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8, (e) 10.3的NiOx纳米颗粒的TEM形貌图; (f) TEM图粒径统计; 纳米粒度仪测得的NiOx纳米颗粒; (g) 粒径分布; (h) 平均粒径
Figure 1. TEM images of NiOx nanoparticles prepared at pH of (a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8 and (e) 10.3; (f) particle size statistics for TEM image; (g) particle size distributions and (h) average particle size of NiOx nanoparticles measured by nanoparticle size analyzer
图 2 调制pH为(a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8, (e) 10.3, (f) 11.5得到的Ni(OH)2粉体的TEM形貌图
Figure 2. TEM images of Ni(OH)2 powers prepared at pH of (a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8, (e) 10.3 and (f) 11.5.
图 3 (a) NiOx纳米颗粒的Zeta电位; NiOx纳米颗粒分散液沉降照片 (b) 初始; (c) 21天; (d) 70天
Figure 3. (a) Zeta potential of NiOx nanoparticles; (b)–(d) deposition photographs of NiOx dispersion solution at different time: (b) At beginning; (c) 21 days; (d) 70 days.
图 4 NiOx纳米颗粒的 (a)—(e) XPS图; (f) XRD图
Figure 4. (a)–(e) XPS images of NiOx nanoparticles; (f) XRD image of NiOx nanoparticles.
图 5 合成体系pH值为(a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8, (e) 10.3的NiOx颗粒制备的薄膜的AFM图; (f) NiOx薄膜截面轮廓图
Figure 5. AFM images of NiOx films prepared from different NiOx nanoparticles synthesized at pH (a) 9.0, (b) 9.2, (c) 9.5, (d) 9.8 and (e) 10.3; (f) cross-sectional profiles of NiOx films.
图 6 钙钛矿复合薄膜ITO/NiOx/MAPbI3的 (a)—(e) SEM图, (f) PL谱图, (g) 荧光寿命图.
Figure 6. (a)–(e) SEM images, (f) PL spectra, and (g) PL decay spectra of perovskite film (ITO/NiOx/MAPbI3).
图 7 基于NiOx传输层的钙钛矿太阳能电池的 (a)—(d) J-V曲线; (e) EQE图; (f) 最佳器件的稳态输出曲线
Figure 7. (a)–(d) J-V curves and (e) EQE spectra of NiOx transport layer-based perovskite solar cells; (f) steady-state output curve of the best device.
表 1 基于不同NiOx薄膜的钙钛矿太阳电池的光伏参数(每组10个器件)
Table 1. Photovoltaic parameters of perovskite solar cells based on different NiOx films averaged over 10 cells.
pH Jsc/(mA·cm–2) Voc/V FF/% PCEave/% PCEmax/% 9.2 17.99 ± 1.14 1.006 ± 0.024 69.89 ± 4.43 12.62 ± 0.65 13.76 9.5 19.72 ± 0.57 1.064 ± 0.006 79.02 ± 0.96 16.58 ± 0.49 17.39 9.8 19.39 ± 0.51 1.065 ± 0.005 79.86 ± 0.46 16.48 ± 0.45 17.17 10.3 19.05 ± 0.44 1.058 ± 0.004 77.56 ± 0.84 15.62 ± 0.41 16.49 
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[1] Kojima A, Teshima K, Shirai Y, Miyasaka T 2009 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 6050
Google Scholar
[2] National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Best Research-Cell Efficiencieshttps://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html, 2022
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Google Scholar
[4] Fei C, Li B, Zhang R, Fu H, Tian J, Cao G 2017 Adv. Eng. Mater. 7 1602017
Google Scholar
[5] Wang M, Li H, Dai C, Tang J, Yin B, Wang H, Li J, Wu Y, Zhang C, Zhao Y S 2021 Sci. Chin. Chem. 64 629
Google Scholar
[6] Lian J, Lu B, Niu F, Zeng P, Zhan X 2018 Small Methods 2 1800082
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[7] Calió L, Kazim S, Grätzel M, Ahmad S 2016 Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 14522
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[8] Zhao Y, Ma F, Qu Z, Yu S, Shen T, Deng H X, Chu X, Peng X, Yuan Y, Zhang X, You J 2022 Science 377 531
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[9] Chen J, Dong H, Zhang L, Li J, Jia F, Jiao B, Xu J, Hou X, Liu J, Wu Z 2020 J. Mater. Chem. A 8 2644
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[10] Zhang F, Ye S, Zhang H, Zhou F, Hao Y, Cai H, Song J, Qu J 2021 Nano Energy 89 106370
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[11] Yu Y, Shang M, Wang T, Zhou Q, Hao Y, Pang Z, Cui D, Lian G, Zhang X, Han S 2021 J. Mater. Chem. C 9 15056
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[12] Wang Y, Duan L, Zhang M, Hameiri Z, Liu X, Bai Y, Hao X 2022 Solar RRL 6 2200234
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[13] Zhang F, Song J, Zhang L, Niu F, Hao Y, Zeng P, Niu H, Huang J, Lian J 2016 J. Mater. Chem. A 4 8554
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[14] Boyd C C, Shallcross R C, Moot T, Kerner R, Bertoluzzi L, Onno A, Kavadiya S, Chosy C, Wolf E J, Werner J, Raiford J A, de Paula C, Palmstrom A F, Yu Z J, Berry J J, Bent S F, Holman Z C, Luther J M, Ratcliff E L, Armstrong N R, McGehee M D 2020 Joule 4 1759
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[15] Yin X T, Guo Y X, Xie H X, Que W X, Kong L B 2019 Solar RRL 3 1900001
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