Modeling for Efficiency Enhancement of Perovskite Thin-Film Solar Cell by Using Double-Absorber and Buffer Layers

Abstract

Perovskite solar cells appear to be the most promising candidate for thin-film solar cells. In this work, double layer Perovskite solar cells were simulated using a SCAPS-1D simulator in which different thickness of the perovskite layers was used, a buffer layer of PEDOT:PSS was used, the effect of defect density in absorbing layers, the influence of doping in Spiro-OMeTAD as well as the effect of temperature is studied. With this proposed simulated model, the maximum efficiency of the perovskite solar cell reaches 28.22%. Hence this simulation work will provide handy information in fabricating perovskite solar cells to reasonably choose material parameters and to achieve high efficiency.

Keywords:

• Perovskite
• Solar Cell
• Double absorber layers
• Lead free
• SCAPS-1D
• Power conversion efficiency

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge, Professor Marc Burgelman from the University of Gent, Belgium for providing the opportunity to use SCAPS-1D simulation software.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).