Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.660, No.1, 54-59, 2018
Acceptor-donor-acceptor type planar hole-transporting materials for efficient dopant-free perovskite solar cells
Acceptor-donor-acceptor (A-D-A) type organic small molecule (SM-1) has been explored as an efficient dopant-free hole transporting material (HTM) to replace spiro-OMeTAD in the perovskite solar cells. High quality smooth, uniform, and hydrophobic SM-1 HTM can be readily deposited through solution casting without any external dopants. The highly compatible highest occupied molecular orbital level of -5.15eV of SM-1 with respect to the perovskite valence band, along with intrinsically rich hole conductive nature effectively extracts holes from perovskite and thereby showed a reasonably high power conversion efficiency of 10.54%. Henceforth, the SM-1 based PSCs results successfully demonstrate the advancement of dopant-free PSCs through design engineering of planar A-D-A type conjugated small molecules.
Keywords:Acceptor-donor-acceptor small molecule;dopant-free;hole transporting material;perovskite solar cells