PEDOT in perovskite solar cells

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10468198-B2
Application number	US-201515525227-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2015
Priority date	Nov 21, 2014
Publication date	Nov 5, 2019
Grant date	Nov 5, 2019

Abstract

The present invention relates to a process for the production of a layered body (1), at least comprising the process steps: I) provision of a photoactive layer comprising a material having a perovskite type crystal structure; II) superimposing the photoactive layer at least partially with a coating composition A) comprising an electrically conductive polymer a) and an organic solvent b); III) at least partial removal of the organic solvent b) from the coating composition A) superimposed in process step II), thereby obtaining an electrically conductive layer superimposed on the photoactive layer. The present invention also relates to a layered body obtainable by this process, to dispersions, to an electronic device, to a process for the preparation of a photovoltaic device and to the photovoltaic device that is obtainable by this process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A dispersion comprising:
a) a salt of a cationic polythiophene with a counter-ion or a complex of a cationic polythiophene with a counter-ion;
b) an organic solvent with a ΔA-value of less than 5%, wherein the ΔA-value is calculated by formula (I)
Δ A =( A 0 −A D )/ A 0 ×100%  (I)

wherein A 0 is an absorption before and A D is an absorption after a CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 -layer has been superimposed with the organic solvent b) for 30 seconds, in each case determined at 490 nm.

2. The dispersion according to claim 1 , wherein the polymeric counter ion is a copolymer comprising polymerized styrene monomer units at least a part of which is sulfonated and polymerized non-sulfonated monomer units and wherein the molar ratio of the non-sulfonated monomer units is at least 5%, based on the total amount of monomer units in the copolymer.

3. The dispersion according to claim 1 , wherein the counter-ion is a hydrogenated styrene-isoprene block copolymer with the structure A-B-C-B-A, in which block A is a polystyrene block which is at least partially substituted with tert-butyl groups, block B is a block of alternating copolymerized ethylene-propylene units and block C is a sulphonated polystyrene block.

4. The dispersion according to claim 1 , wherein the conductivity of an electrically conductive layer made by coating a glass substrate with the dispersion and drying the thus obtained layer structure for 3 minutes at 200° C. on a hot plate is at least 0.2 S/cm.

5. The dispersion according to claim 1 , wherein the water content of the dispersion is less than 2 wt.-% based on the total weight of the dispersion.

Assignees

• Heraeus Deutschland Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Schumann Stefan
• Elschner Andreas
• Sautter Armin
• Lovenich Wilfried
• Sauer Rüdiger
• Sütterlin Jan
• Kausch-Busies Nina

Classifications

• C08G2261/794

  with polymeric dopants · CPC title

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• C08G2261/1424

  containing ether groups, including alkoxy · CPC title

• C08G2261/3223

  containing one or more sulfur atoms as the only heteroatom, e.g. thiophene · CPC title

• H01G9/0029

  Processes of manufacture · CPC title