Soft-landing of IZRO electrodes eleminates buffer layers

13 January, 2021

Previously, Zr‐doped In2O3 (IZrO) transparent conductive oxides electrodes have been successfully implemented for perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells by our group. (see Aydin, Erkan, et al. "Zr‐Doped Indium Oxide (IZRO) Transparent Electrodes for Perovskite‐Based Tandem Solar Cells." Advanced Functional Materials 29.25 (2019): 1901741.).

Here, KPV-LAB researcher Dr. Erkan Aydin and Prof. Stefaan De Wolf contributes a publication led by the University of Twente and collaborators from TNO/Solliance. In this study, Smirnov et al. developed a pulsed-laser deposited IZRO electrodes successfully at low-temperature values and implemented them in semitransparent perovskite solar cells.

This study revealed that the PLD technique can be used as a "soft" deposition technique for the "sensitive" perovskite solar cells. This opens an opportunity to utilize PLD grown IZRO films on perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells without additional buffer layers.

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Smirnov, Y., Schmengler, L., Kuik, R., Repecaud, P.‐A., Najafi, M., Zhang, D., Theelen, M., Aydin, E., Veenstra, S., De, S., Morales‐Masis, M., Scalable Pulsed Laser Deposition of Transparent Rear Electrode for Perovskite Solar Cells. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2021, 2000856. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202000856

Figure. The comparison of PLD and Rf-sputtering grown IZRO films via EBSD mapping for as-deposited (left) and annealed at 200 °C in air (right) next to the corresponding SEM images.