Comparative Study of Lead-free Perovskite Materials MASnI3, MASnBr3 and MAGeI3 to Design, Simulate and Optimize Lead Free PSC

Authors

  • Nishi Bala Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Patna 800 005, Bihar, India
  • Sanjeev Kumar Mallik Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Patna 800 005, Bihar, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56042/ijpap.v62i4.7435

Keywords:

ETL-Electron transport layer, PSC–Perovskite solar cell, PAL – Perovskite absorption layer, PCE – Power conversion efficiency

Abstract

The advancement of photovoltaic technology has certainly been revamped by lead-based perovskite solar cells (PSCs). But lead toxicity is a big hurdle in its large-scale commercial production and usage. Hence, in current work three lead-free Perovskite materials MASnI3, MASnBr3 and MAGeI3 has been thoroughly investigated to develop environment friendly PSCs of high efficiency and stability. The modelled device structures utilized  as electron transport layer (ETL), CH3NH3SnI3, CH3NH3SnBr3 and CH3NH3GeI3 as perovskite absorption layer (PAL), Spiro-OMeTAD as hole transport layer (HTL), Indium doped tin oxide (ITO) as top electrode and Au as anode contact. Defect density in combination with different thickness of perovskite absorption layer has been investigated to obtain optimum solar cell parameters. At a thickness of 500 nm and defect density of  of PAL, simulated Perovskite solar cell ITO/ZnO/CH3NH3SnI3/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au provided optimized solar cell parameters as PCE 25.95%, Voc 1.06V, Jsc 31.67mA/cm2 and FF 77.24%, ITO/ ZnO/CH3NH3SnBr3/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au provided PCE 25.01%, VOC 1.02V, JSC 32.41  and FF 75.68%, ITO/ZnO/CH3NH3SnI3/Spiro-OMeTAD/Au provided PCE 19.66%, VOC 1.81V, JSC 14.29  and FF 75.95%. Further, effect of interface defect density, series resistance, shunt resistance, and temperature are studied on the solar cell characteristics. It is well observed that Sn-based devices are more efficient and less stable than Ge-based devices and
vice versa.

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Published

2024-03-06