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: Received: 5 June 2023 / Approved: 5 June 2023 / Online: 5 June 2023 (16:06:02 CEST)
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Ibrahim, H.K.; Sabaawi, A.M.A.; Aljwari, Q.T. A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Defects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. Preprints2023, 2023060344. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0344.v1
Ibrahim, H.K.; Sabaawi, A.M.A.; Aljwari, Q.T. A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Defects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. Preprints 2023, 2023060344. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0344.v1
Ibrahim, H.K.; Sabaawi, A.M.A.; Aljwari, Q.T. A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Defects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. Preprints2023, 2023060344. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0344.v1
APA Style
Ibrahim, H.K., Sabaawi, A.M.A., & Aljwari, Q.T. (2023). A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Defects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0344.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ibrahim, H.K., Ahmed M A Sabaawi and Qais Th Aljwari. 2023 "A Comprehensive Study on the Effect of Defects on Perovskite Solar Cell Performance" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202306.0344.v1
Abstract
This paper focuses on the impact of defects density and carrier capture cross-section area in the electron transport material (ETM), hole transport material (HTM), and absorber layers on the performance of perovskite solar cells and quantum efficiency (QE). Furthermore, the impact of defects density at the interface between ETM/absorber and absorber/HTM is also studied. SCAPS-1D software is used in the current study in determining solar cell performance. The proposed perovskite solar cell structure is a planar FTO/TiO2/ CH3NH3PbI3/ Cu2O. The results indicated that increasing the defect density in the absorber layer significantly affects cell performance, while in ETM and HTM layers, the cell parameters remain unaffected. It is also found that the defect capture cross-section has a similar behavior to the defect density in the main layers (ETM, absorber, and HTM). In addition, it is observed that by increasing the defects density in the ETM/absorber and absorber/HTM interfaces layer, the cell parameters FF, Jsc, and PCE have been slightly decreased, with no effect on Voc. Moreover, it is also noted that the quantum efficiency QE is sharply reduced. Finally, this paper introduced the correlation between the defect density and the capture cross-section, which is the first attempt to find such a relationship in perovskite solar cells to the knowledge of the authors.
Keywords
defect density; capture cross-section; perovskite solar cell; SCAPS, interfaces.
Subject
Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology
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