Perovskite solar cell

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9318270-B2
Application number	US-201514667987-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 25, 2015
Priority date	Mar 27, 2014
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

Abstract

An perovskite solar cell including a substrate; a first electrode provided on the substrate; an electron transport layer, including an electron transporting compound, provided on the first electrode; a perovskite compound layer, including a perovskite compound, provided on the electron transport layer; a hole transport layer, including a hole transport compound, provided on the perovskite compound layer; and a second electrode provided on the hole transport layer. The perovskite compound can be expressed by the general formula X α Y β M γ , where X is a halogen atom, Y is an alkylamine compound, M includes a mixture of lead and antimony, and a ratio of α:β:γ is 3:1:1.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An perovskite solar cell, comprising:
a substrate;
a first electrode provided on the substrate;
an electron transport layer, including an electron transporting compound, provided on the first electrode;
a perovskite compound layer, including a perovskite compound, provided on the electron transport layer;
a hole transport layer, including a hole transport compound, provided on the perovskite compound layer; and
a second electrode provided on the hole transport layer,
wherein the perovskite compound is expressed as a general formula X α Y β M γ , where X is a halogen atom, Y is an alkylamine compound, M includes a mixture of lead and antimony, and a ratio of α:β:γ is 3:1:1.

2. The perovskite solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the perovskite compound is formed of halogenated alkylamine and a mixture of lead halide and halogenated antimony.

3. The perovskite solar cell of claim 2 , wherein halogenated alkylamine includes at least one of halogenated methylamine and halogenated formamidine.

4. The perovskite solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the electron transporting compound is a metal oxide.

5. The perovskite solar cell of claim 4 , wherein the metal oxide is selected from the group consisting of zinc oxide, tin oxide, titanium oxide, aluminum oxide, niobium oxide, yttrium oxide, and barium titanate.

6. The perovskite solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the electron transport layer is a laminated layer of a compact electron transport layer and a porous electron transport layer.

7. The perovskite solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the hole transport layer includes at least lithium trifluoromethanesulfonylimide.

8. The perovskite solar cell of claim 1 , wherein the hole transport layer includes at least a pyridine compound.

Assignees

• Horiuchi Tamotsu
• Yashiro Tohru
• Tanaka Yuuji
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Horiuchi Tamotsu
• Yashiro Tohru
• Tanaka Yuuji

Classifications

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• H01G9/2059 Primary

  comprising an organic dye as the active light absorbing material, e.g. adsorbed on an electrode or dissolved in solution · CPC title

• H10K85/50

  Organic perovskites; Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites [HOIP], e.g. CH3NH3PbI3 · CPC title

• H10K30/40

  comprising a p-i-n structure, e.g. having a perovskite absorber between p-type and n-type charge transport layers · CPC title

• H10K30/151 Primary

  the wide bandgap semiconductor comprising titanium oxide, e.g. TiO2 · CPC title