Photoelectric conversion element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10367103-B2
Application number	US-201715730815-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2017
Priority date	May 8, 2015
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including: a first electrode having opaqueness to light and formed of a metal; a hole blocking layer provided on the first electrode; an electron transport layer provided on the hole blocking layer; a hole transport layer provided on the electron transport layer; and a second electrode provided on the hole transport layer and having transmissivity to light, wherein the hole blocking layer contains an oxide of the metal in the first electrode.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A photoelectric conversion element comprising:
a first electrode having opaqueness to light and formed of a metal;
a hole blocking layer provided on the first electrode;
an electron transport layer provided on the hole blocking layer;
a hole transport layer provided on the electron transport layer; and
a second electrode provided on the hole transport layer and having transmissivity to light,
wherein
the hole blocking layer comprises an oxide of the metal in the first electrode, and the hole transport layer comprises a basic compound of formula (1):

wherein R 1 and R 2 represent a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or aromatic hydrocarbon group and may be identical or different, and R 1 and R 2 may bind with each other to form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group comprising a nitrogen atom.

2. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide of the metal in the hole blocking layer is obtained by subjecting the first electrode to a heating treatment in an oxygen atmosphere.

3. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide of the metal in the hole blocking layer is obtained by a reactive sputter method by an oxygen gas using a target formed of the metal.

4. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the oxide of the metal in the hole blocking layer comprises titanium oxide.

5. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the hole transport layer comprises a hole transport material represented by structural formula (1) below,

6. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrode comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of stainless steel, copper, titanium, and aluminium.

7. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the second electrode comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of polythiophene and metal nanowire.

8. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the hole transport layer comprises lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide.

9. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the photoelectric conversion element is used in an environment under weak light of from 50 Lux through 300 Lux.

10. The photoelectric conversion element according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrode is a layer directly on a substrate, wherein the substrate is selected from the group consisting of a glass plate, a transparent plastic plate, a transparent plastic film, and an inorganic transparent crystal.

Assignees

• Tanaka Yuuji
• Suzuki Shigeyo
• Kanei Naomichi
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Yuuji
• Suzuki Shigeyo
• Kanei Naomichi

Classifications

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• H01L27/30

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/442

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/4226

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/441

  Electricity · mapped topic