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Chemistry. 2015 Oct 19;21(43):15113-7. doi: 10.1002/chem.201503099. Epub 2015 Sep 03.

Facile Synthesis of a Furan-Arylamine Hole-Transporting Material for High-Efficiency, Mesoscopic Perovskite Solar Cells.

Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)

Anurag Krishna, Dharani Sabba, Jun Yin, Annalisa Bruno, Pablo P Boix, Yang Gao, Herlina A Dewi, Gagik G Gurzadyan, Cesare Soci, Subodh G Mhaisalkar, Andrew C Grimsdale

Affiliations

  1. Energy Research Institute, Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).
  2. Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553 (Singapore).
  3. Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371 (Singapore).
  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637553 (Singapore).
  5. Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637553 (Singapore). [email protected].
  6. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 637553 (Singapore). [email protected].

PMID: 26333387 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503099

Abstract

A novel hole-transporting molecule (F101) based on a furan core has been synthesized by means of a short, high-yielding route. When used as the hole-transporting material (HTM) in mesoporous methylammonium lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) it produced better device performance than the current state-of-the-art HTM 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD). The F101-HTM-based device exhibited both slightly higher Jsc (19.63 vs. 18.41 mA cm(-2) ) and Voc (1.1 vs. 1.05 V) resulting in a marginally higher power conversion efficiency (PCE) (13.1 vs. 13 %). The steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence show that F101 has significant charge extraction ability. The simple molecular structure, short synthesis route with high yield and better performance in devices makes F101 an excellent candidate for replacing the expensive spiro-OMeTAD as HTM in PSCs.

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

Keywords: heterocycles; hole transport; perovskite; solar cells

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