Next Article in Journal
Black-Si as a Photoelectrode
Previous Article in Journal
Chitosan Nanoparticles for Therapy and Theranostics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and Liver-Targeting
 
 
Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
Journals
Nanomaterials
Volume 10
Issue 5
10.3390/nano10050872
nanomaterials-logo
Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Propose a Special Issue
► Article Menu

Article Menu

share Share announcement Help format_quote Cite question_answer Discuss in SciProfiles
first_page
settings
Order Article Reprints
Font Type:
Arial Georgia Verdana
Font Size:
Aa Aa Aa
Line Spacing:
Column Width:
Background:
Article

Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells

by
Zahra Rezay Marand
1,2,
Ahmad Kermanpur
2,
Fathallah Karimzadeh
2,
Eva M. Barea
1,
Ehsan Hassanabadi
1,3,
Elham Halvani Anaraki
2,
Beatriz Julián-López
1,
Sofia Masi
1,* and
Iván Mora-Seró
1,*
1
Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, Av. Sos Baynat, s/n, 12071 Castelló, Spain
2
Department of Materials Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111, Iran
3
Textile Engineering Department, Textile Excellence & Research Centers, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran 15916-34311, Iran
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Nanomaterials 2020, 10(5), 872; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050872
Submission received: 24 March 2020 / Revised: 7 April 2020 / Accepted: 15 April 2020 / Published: 30 April 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Energy and Catalysis)
Browse Figures
Review Reports Versions Notes

Abstract

:
Inorganic hole-transporting materials (HTMs) for stable and cheap inverted perovskite-based solar cells are highly desired. In this context, NiOx, with low synthesis temperature, has been employed. However, the low conductivity and the large number of defects limit the boost of the efficiency. An approach to improve the conductivity is metal doping. In this work, we have synthesized cobalt-doped NiOx nanoparticles containing 0.75, 1, 1.25, 2.5, and 5 mol% cobalt (Co) ions to be used for the inverted planar perovskite solar cells. The best efficiency of the devices utilizing the low temperature-deposited Co-doped NiOx HTM obtained a champion photoconversion efficiency of 16.42%, with 0.75 mol% of doping. Interestingly, we demonstrated that the improvement is not from an increase of the conductivity of the NiOx film, but due to the improvement of the perovskite layer morphology. We observe that the Co-doping raises the interfacial recombination of the device but more importantly improves the perovskite morphology, enlarging grain size and reducing the density of bulk defects and the bulk recombination. In the case of 0.75 mol% of doping, the beneficial effects do not just compensate for the deleterious one but increase performance further. Therefore, 0.75 mol% Co doping results in a significant improvement in the performance of NiOx-based inverted planar perovskite solar cells, and represents a good compromise to synthesize, and deposit, the inorganic material at low temperature, without losing the performance, due to the strong impact on the structural properties of the perovskite. This work highlights the importance of the interface from two different points of view, electrical and structural, recognizing the role of a low doping Co concentration, as a key to improve the inverted perovskite-based solar cells’ performance.

1. Introduction

Organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have gained increasing attention owing to their high power conversion efficiencies and fabrication in solution at low temperatures. Within just a few years, PSCs have boosted efficiency to 25.2% [1]. Moreover, low-temperature processing makes them promising for future industrialization [2]. Along with the improvement in the perovskite material and deposition techniques, the advances in perovskite solar cells are also due to the study of the different hole-transporting and electron-transporting materials (HTMs and ETMs, respectively) employed in the devices [3]. The two most common architecture used in the fabrication of PSCs are the n-i-p and p-i-n configurations and the current highest efficiencies are achieved with the n-i-p one, using TiO2 as ETM and doped Spiro-OMeTAD as HTM [4]. This configuration is characterized by the high cost of the HTM and by a slight hysteresis, which has to be avoided with the use of special treatment or interlayers [5]. This hysteretic behavior can also be suppressed by using inverted p-i-n architectures [6,7,8]. Moreover, the planar p-i-n configuration is more favorable due to its relatively low-temperature processing, primarily when organic HTM is used [9,10]. However, one of the challenges in the fabrication of inverted perovskite solar cells is the lack of stable and low-cost HTM: i.e., poly (3, 4-ethylen edioxythiophene):poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) has high acidity, which decreases the long-term stability of the devices [11], and the poly[N,N’-bis(4-butylphenyl)-N,N’-bisphenylbenzidine] (p-TPD) and the poly(triaryl amine) (PTAA) are expensive and very hydrophobic, hindering the easy perovskite deposition, due to the poor wettability [12]. Conversely, inorganic materials like, MoOx, CuCrO2, CuOx, CuSbS2, CuSCN and NiOx, have low-cost and superior stability as well as higher mobility, basic prerequisites for obtaining stable and high-efficiency perovskite solar cells.
Among the inorganic HTMs, the low-temperature NiOx is the most common in PSCs [13,14,15,16]. The remarkable properties of NiOx, such as intrinsic p-type doping nature, high optical transmittance, deep-lying valence band (VB) (5.4 eV) and low cost, make NiOx a preferential candidate for HTM in PSCs. NiOx has been prepared by several methods such as spray pyrolysis and a solution process or pulsed laser deposition [14,17,18,19]. Despite the merits of NiOx as HTM, its low intrinsic electrical conductivity and the high amount of defects when it is synthetized at low temperature, resulting in an increased charge recombination and reduced hole extraction [20], have blocked further improvement to NiOx-based PSCs. To overcome this drawback, keeping the temperature low, two main methods have been investigated, one is the addition of interlayers to control the interface [21] and a more effective one is metal ion doping. Different metals are used to dope the NiOx, like Au+ [13], Cu2+ [22], Co3+ [23] and Li+ [24]. Among different metals, Co is a promising dopant, yet used for other materials in direct solar cells configuration [25,26,27]. With regard to the NiOx, due to the low lattice parameter mismatch of 1.6% [28], a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18% has been obtained [29], but with an annealing around 300–400 °C [30]. Low-temperature synthesis of Co-doped NiOx has been further optimized, and an improvement of the conductivity when the level of doping increases has been demonstrated [17]. However, the maximum efficiency is obtained at a doping level (1%) lower than that needed to obtain the maximum conductivity (5%), because a decrease of the hole extraction ability [17]. Here we have developed the low temperature synthesis of Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles with Co ion from 0.75 to 5 mol% to stay in the range of higher conductivity and good hole extraction properties [23]. A comparative analysis of the structural and optical properties of the perovskite material, when deposited on the inorganic HTM, is also carried out. Although the conductivity is almost the same in the case of the NiOx doped and not doped by Co, we demonstrated that the Co doping leads to an increase of perovskite layer morphology and a change in the recombination mechanism. This is correlated with the increased fill factor (FF) in the solar cells—usually low due to the high temperature deposition (Table 1) employed and for the generation of defects in the bare NiOx devices—in turn due to the increased perovskite crystallinity and to the morphological improvement when the Co doping is employed as high as 0.75 mol%, assisting in the reduction of the more hostile bulk recombination [31,32,33].

2. Experimental Section

2.1. Materials

Ni(NO3)2·6H2O (99.9%) and CoCl2·6H2O (99.0%), were purchased from Sigma Aldrich (Madrid, Spain). Lead iodide (PbI2, >98%, from TCI, Tokyo, Japan), methylammonium iodide (MAI, 98%, from Greatcellsolar, Queanbeyan, Australia), 2-propanol (99.7% from Carlo Erba, Val de Reuil, France), ethanol (96%) and acetone (99.25%) from PanReac (Castellar del Valles, Spain), hydrochloric acid (HCl 37%), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO anhydrous 99.9%), chlorobenzene (CB anhydrous 99.8%), ethylacetate (EA anhydrous 99.8%), zinc powder (99.995%) from Sigma aldrich. [6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM, 99%) was purchased from nano-C (Westwood, NJ, USA). 2,9-Dimethyl-4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline (BCP, 99%) was purchased from Sigma Aldrich.

2.2. Synthesis of NiOx and Co-Doped NiOx Nanoparticles

The NiOx was synthetized following previous reports [23]. The different steps of the synthesis are summarized in Figure 1. NiOx nanoparticles doped with different amounts of Co with different molar ratios (x = 0, 0.75, 1, 1.25, 2.5 and 5 mol%) were synthesized using the chemical co-precipitation method, according to the method reported in literature [35]. The typical procedure is as follows: Ni(NO3)2·6H2O (0.25 mol) was dissolved in 50 mL of deionized deoxygenated H2O to obtain a dark green solution. After being vigorously magnetically stirred for 1 h, NaOH solution (10 M, alkali source) in drops was added to the initial solution by slower stirring for crystallizing structures. During this operation, the initial dark green color of the solution turned to opaque pale green as a result of nanoparticles formation. Then keeping it stirred for another 1 h, the pale green colloidal precipitate was collected by an ultrasonic centrifugation at 6500 rpm for 15 min, and washed twice with deionized water. Finally, the product was dried at 80 °C overnight. The green solid obtained was grinded in mortar then calcined at 270 °C for 2 h to obtain a black powder. It is worth mentioning that all main synthesis steps were performed under N2 gas protection to create an oxygen-free atmosphere and prevent oxidation of divalent nickel salts. For doping, divalent Co (Co2+), CoCl2·6H2O was added to the Ni(NO3)2·6H2O solution at various molar ratios which were mentioned above. Before use, nanoparticles were dispersed in deionized water by ultrasonics probe for 2 min with amplitudes of 52% and cycle 1 (20 mg mL−1). Finally, the nanoparticle solution was filtered through a PVDF filter (0.40 μm).

2.3. Fabrication of Solar Cells

Substrates (tin-doped indium oxide-ITO) were etched with zinc powder and HCl 6 M. After cleaning with soap and water and then placing in an ultrasonic bath with 2% Extran solution in water for 15 min with ethanol, isopropanol, and acetone for 15 min for each solvent, the substrate were dried by airflow and were put in an ultraviolet–ozone (UV-O3) environment for 10 min to remove organic residues. The HTMs were obtained by spin-coating the corresponding NiOx or Co-NiOx aqueous solution (20 mg mL−1) with a speed of 3000 rpm for 40 s and heated at 130 °C for 10 min, in ambient conditions. The perovskite film (MAPbI3) was deposited over the HTM layer by one-step spin coating at 2000 rpm for 10 s, followed by 6000 rpm for 28 s with an acceleration of 3000, with the precursor composed of PbI2 and MAI (1.3 M for each) in 1 mL DMSO. Ethyl acetate was dropped onto the perovskite film at the last 15th second during the spin coating. As soon as the spin coating was finished, the sample was moved to a hotplate and annealed for 10 min at a temperature 130 °C [36]. Afterward, PCBM (20 mg mL−1 in CB) was spin-coated at 1000 rpm for 30 s and dried at 60 °C for 10 min. BCP (0.5 mg mL−1 in 2-propanol) was deposited by spin-coating at 6000 rpm for 30 s and dried at 60 °C for 5 min. Finally, Ag electrodes with a thickness of 100 nm were thermally evaporated at a deposition rate of about 0.5 nm s−1 in a vacuum chamber through a shadow mask [37].

2.4. Structural Characterization

The morphologies of the samples (ITO/Co-NiOx/MAPbI3) were characterized with a field-emission scanning electron microscope (FEG-SEM JEOL 3100F) operated at 5 kV, equipped with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of the NiOx and Co-NiOx powders were recorded using an X-ray diffractometer (D8 Advance, Bruker AXS, Karlsruhe, Germany) (Cu Kα, the wavelength of λ = 1.5406 Å) within the range of 30–70°. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images were recorded using (JEOL 2100 microscope, Akishima, Japan). Surface morphologies of thin films were observed using an atomic force microscope (AFM) (CSI-Nano Observer, Les Ulis, France).

2.5. Optoelectronic Characterization

The current−voltage (J/V) curves were measured using a Keithley 2612 source meter under AM 1.5 G (100 mWcm−2) provided by a solar simulator model 69,920 Newport. Each curve was generated using 123 data points. The active area of the cell is 0.121 cm2, and the scan rate was 10 mVs−1. The incident photons to current efficiency (IPCE) measurements were performed with a QEPVSI-b Oriel measurement system. The steady-state absorption spectra of the perovskite films were achieved by using an ultraviolet–visible (UV/Vis) absorption spectrophotometer (Varian, Cary 300, Palo Alto, CA, USA), and the steady state and the time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) decay were collected by a Horiba Fluorolog. The steady state PL was collected at a wavelength of 780 nm after excitation at 532 nm.

3. Results and Discussion

To investigate in detail how the presence of very low content of Co dopant (0.75–5 mol%) in the nickel oxide structure influencing the properties of the PSCs, a first characterization of NiOx nanoparticles was made. TEM images of NiOx nanoparticles and NiOx with different Co percentage as dopant are shown in Figure 2. Pure NiOx nanoparticles have a broad size distribution (10–33 nm) centered at 17 nm. However, the Co-doped particles present a smaller average size around 12 nm, and a narrower size distribution than the undoped nanoparticles. These results are in good agreement with the crystal size calculated from the XRD measurements (Figure 3a) using the Debye–Scherrer formula, see Table S1 [38,39].
XRD peaks of all samples correspond to the standard pattern characteristic of the cubic crystal structure of NiOx, with three characteristic diffraction peaks at 37.1°, 43.0° and 62.7° related to (111), (200) and (220) planes of NiOx, respectively (Figure 3a). No secondary phase is detected, ruling out the formation of other Co-based structures such as CoO. Therefore, the NiOx has been formed with relatively high phase purity and, according to the difference in the peaks intensities between the samples of undoped NiOx and Co-doped NiOx, it is clear that Ni ions have been successfully replaced with Co ions, as demonstrated also by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) measurements (Figure S1) [40]. We investigated the optical characteristics of the pristine NiOx and Co-NiOx films. The Co-NiOx films deposited on the ITO substrates revealed a high transmission (>87%) in the visible region (400–800 nm) (Figure 3b). [23] Concerning the optical properties of the Co-NiOx films, they showed a slightly lower transmission than undoped films, see Figure 3b.
NiOx and Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles were deposited in thin film in order to work as HTM. The surface morphologies of pure NiOx and Co-NiOx films are shown in Figure 4. The Co-NiOx films consisted of smaller-sized grains than the pure NiOx film and the 0.75 mol% show the most uniform morphology over a large area [23].
MAPbI3 films were deposited on top of the NiOx or Co-NiOx HTM. The SEM images (Figure 5a–f) indicated similar polycrystalline morphologies, uniform and pinhole-free perovskite with smaller grain sizes (∼150–200 nm) on the top of NiOx film and the biggest size is for the Co doping percentage 2.5 and 5 mol%). The bigger grain size could be due to better morphology of the Co-doped substrate. Between the different doping percentages, the 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx film, that present the best morphology, produce also the second for dimension perovskite grains, of ∼250–300 nm (Figure 5b), together with a more uniform distribution (Figure S2). The uniformity of the inorganic HTM and the big grains of the perovskite, demonstrate the potential of the 0.75 mol% doping for the fabrication of high-quality optoelectronic devices. The XRD spectra of perovskite layers (Figure 5g) show the presence of six main peaks at 14.20°, 19.94°, 23.56°, 28.50°, 31.75°, and 40.67°, which correspond to the (110) (112) (202) (220) (310) and (224) planes for the perovskite MAPI3 [36]. Moreover, the perovskite growth on the NiOx substrate doped with 0.75 mol% of Co is the more crystalline and oriented one, as the intensity of the peak at 14.20° and the ratio between the (110) and (220) faces are the highest (Table S2). The benefits of growing crystal with large grain size and good orientation are, firstly, the reduced grain boundary area associated with large grains. The reduced grain boundary area suppresses bulk defects, charge trapping and decreases recombination, with the consequence of a relative higher carrier mobility. This is also translated in the device, in which the photo-generated carriers can easily propagate without frequent encounters with defects and impurities [41], see below.
To quantify the effect of Co-NiOx as HTMs, PSCs have been fabricated and characterized with an inverted structure as shown in Figure 6a (glass/ITO/NiOx or Co-NiOx/MAPbI3/PCBM/BCP/Ag). The cross section (Figure 6b,c) demonstrates that the thickness of the perovskite is the same (300 nm) on the top of bare NiOx and Co-NiOx. It is noted here that better charge transport and low energy loss could be expected for the devices with Co-NiOx because of the well-matched energy levels to perovskite than the pristine NiOx [34]. The pristine champion NiOx-based inverted PSC showed a fill factor (FF) of 70%, a short-circuit current density (Jsc) of 19.5 mA cm−2, a Voc of 0.96 V and a final PCE of 13.2%. By the insertion of the Co ions, Jsc, FF and Voc increase, compared with that of pristine NiOx (Figure 6d) [42,43]. The corresponding device parameters are summarized in Table 2 and the statistics on 40 devices for each type are reported in Figure S3. We achieved a champion PCE of 16.42%, for the 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx, close to the PCE reported with NiOx as HTM synthetized at high temperature [29] and the highest reported for low temperature Co-doped NiOx based inverted perovskite solar cells [23]. The highest FF value was found again for the 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx device with a value of 76%, compared to 70% for the pristine NiOx device. Thus, it is clear that a proper Co doping effectively improves the quality of the perovskite materials and enhances the Jsc and the general device performance. The stabilized current at maximum power point is also reported in Figure S4. Note that despite 5 mol% Co-NiOx samples present big grain sizes, see Figure 5f, they also present a low shut resistance, see Figure 6d, that decreases significantly the FF, see Table 2. This results points to the presence of pinholes probably induced by the fast growth of some grains.
The IPCE spectra of the champion device shows higher external quantum efficiency for 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx than the prinstine NiOx device (Figure 6e). The integrated current densities derived from the IPCE spectrum are 21.5 mAcm−2 for 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx and 19.5 mAcm−2 for prinstine NiOx, in good agreement with the J/V measurements. Moreover, the Jsc obtained is the highest reported for low-temperature Co-doped NiOx [23] not caused to the different active layer thickness (Figure 6b,c).
In order to unveil the origin of the better performance of Co-NiOx samples a systematic optical and electrical characterization was performed. The behavior of the photoluminescence (PL) with NiOx and Co-NiOx HTM has been analyzed. Comparing the PL of MAPbI3 films deposited on glass with the PL of MAPbI3 deposited on NiOx and Co-NiOx films, a significant PL quenching is observed, especially for samples deposited on Co-NiOx films, see Figure 7a and Figure S5. This fact indicates an increase of the non-radiative recombination at the interface [44]. This point is partially confirmed by the decrease of the PL lifetime measured by time-resolved PL (TRPL), see Figure 7b and Table S3. The perovskite layer without any HTM showed the average lifetime (τave) of photo-generated excitons of 32 ns, while the perovskite layer on pristine NiOx and Co-NiOx exhibited τave of 20 ns and 9.8 ns (Figure 7b).
On the other hand, surface roughness and electrical properties of the HTM were analyzed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and conductive AFM (c-AFM). At this doping level, the improvement of the conductivity is not significant, as we measure by conductive-AFM (Figure S6). The surface roughness of NiOx and Co-NiOx films is also the same at about 50 nm, see Figure S6. Since the films roughness was still comparable to the pristine NiOx film, it confirms again that the Co was effectively embedded in the NiOx without notable deformation of the rock salt crystal structure [34]. Meanwhile c-AFM measurement shows similar electrical behavior (Figure S6), thus the improvement of performances of PSCs based on Co-NiOx cannot be attributed to an increase of the electrical conductivity. Therefore, an analysis of the ideality factor, m, of both devices was performed to characterize whether the effect of Co in the structure, in addition to improving the crystallinity and grain size, is to modify the electrical behavior of the device, specifically the electronic recombination.
In order to analyze the recombination, the mechanism m of both samples was obtained from the slope of the Voc dependence with light illumination, see Figure 7c, using the relation: [45,46].
e · V O C = E g + m · k B · T · l n ϕ ϕ 0
where e is the electron charge, Eg is the light absorber bandgap, kB is the Boltzmann constant, T the temperature, Φ is the light intensity and Φ0 is a constant with the same units than Φ.
For the Co-NiOx device, two different behaviors are observed, corresponding to high and low light intensity. We determined m = 4.2 at low light intensities corresponding to a bulk multiple trapping in trap distribution. However, at high light irradiation m decreases to 1.5, indicating that most of traps are filled at higher light intensity and that the recombination mechanism is now mainly influenced by surface recombination, in good agreement with the PL results. For the NiOx device (Figure 7c) the recombination mechanism is totally independent from the light intensity, as the device presents the same ideal factor of 4.8, pointing to a higher density of bulk traps, which cannot be filled even at high light intensity.
Taking into account the different characterizations performed on the various devices using NiOx and Co-NiOx, focusing concretely on 0.75 mol% that presents the highest performance, we observed two different main trends. On the one hand, an increase of the grain size and improvement of the morphology, which decrease the bulk defects, and on the other hand an increase of the surface recombination. In the case of Co-NiOx 0.75 mol%, it presents higher and more uniform grain size and we hypothesize that the positive effect of the improvement of the bulk properties compensate for the deleterious effect of a not-suppressed interfacial recombination, causing a final enhancement of the device performance.

4. Conclusions

In summary, we have investigated the suitability of Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles as HTMs. Co-NiOx nanoparticles with a diameter of ∼10–20 nm, containing different concentrations (0–5 mol%) of Co ions were synthesized. A comprehensive analysis of optical, morphological and crystallographic investigations demonstrated a double effect of the Co doping. On the one hand, Co doping arises from a surface recombination, on the other hand, Co doping influences the properties of the perovskite grown on top of the Co-NiOx substrates, improving the morphology as a consequence of a grain size enlargement, and reducing the bulk-recombination. The final performance of the devices prepared with Co-NiOx as HTM depends on the balance between these two opposite trends. The case of 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx-based device, that presents a perovskite active layer with big grain size and the highest crystallinity, produces a positive balance and the devices with the highest performance are obtained with champion PCE of 16.42%, higher than previous results with the Co-NiOx HTM synthetized at low temperature.

Supplementary Materials

The following are available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/10/5/872/s1, Figure S1: EDS spectra for NiOx and Co-NiOx nanoparticles and quantitative analysis for each element (Ni, Co, O). Figure S2: Perovskite grain size statistical distributions of the film deposited on the NiOx with and without Co doping at different percentage (from 0.75 to 5 mol%). Figure S3: Statistical analysis; Figure S4: Recorded photocurrent at maximum power point JMPP of the champion devices; Figure S5 PL measurement; Figure S6: Conductive-AFM topographies on ITO substrates; Table S1: Grain sizes (nm) of the pure NiOx and different percentage Co doped nanoparticles, obtained from XRD measurement using the Debye-Scherrer; Table S2: Intensity of the XRD perovskite peaks (counts) and ratio between the intensitity of the peaks 110 (14.2°) and 220 (28.5°). Table S3: photoluminescence time decay parameters τ1 and τ2 and their average.

Author Contributions

Z.R.M.: Cells Fabrication, Investigation, writing—original draft preparation, A.K.: Resource, Supervision, F.K.: Resource, Supervision, E.M.B.: Data curation, E.H.: Data curation, E.H.A.: Resource, B.J.-L.: Resource, S.M.: Supervision, Data curation, writing—review & editing, I.M.-S.: Supervision, Resource, review & editing. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

Z.R.M. acknowledges the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran for the financial support. We also thank SCIC of University Jaume I for its help with TEM and XRD and SEM measurements. Financial support from the European Research Council (ERC) via Consolidator Grant (724424-No-LIMIT), Universitat Jaume I via DEPE2D UJI-B2019-09 and and NENUPHAR UJI-B2018-71, and Generalitat Valenciana via Prometeo Grant Q-Devices (Prometeo/2018/098) are gratefully acknowledged.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest

References

  1. Best Research-Cell Efficiencies. Available online: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/pdfs/best-research-cell-efficiencies.20200406.pdf (accessed on 16 April 2020).
  2. Deng, Y.; Van Brackle, C.H.; Dai, X.; Zhao, J.; Chen, B.; Huang, J. Tailoring solvent coordination for high-speed, room-temperature blading of perovskite photovoltaic films. Sci. Adv. 2019, 5, eaax7537. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  3. Fakharuddin, A.; Schmidt-Mende, L.; Garcia-Belmonte, G.; Jose, R.; Mora-Sero, I. Interfaces in perovskite solar cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7, 1700623. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  4. Zhu, T.; Su, J.; Labat, F.; Ciofini, I.; Pauporte, T. Interfacial Engineering through Chloride-Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayer for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 744–752. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  5. Wang, J.; Datta, K.; Weijtens, C.H.L.; Wienk, M.M.; Janssen, R.A.J. Insights into fullerene passivation of SnO2 electron transport layers in perovskite solar cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1905883. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  6. Noh, Y.W.; Lee, J.H.; Jin, I.S.; Park, S.H.; Jung, J.W. Tailored electronic properties of Zr-doped SnO2 nanoparticles for efficient planar perovskite solar cells with marginal hysteresis. Nano Energy 2019, 65, 104014. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  7. Song, J.; Zhang, W.; Wang, D.; Deng, K.; Wu, J.; Lan, Z. Colloidal synthesis of Y-doped SnO2 nanocrystals for efficient and slight hysteresis planar perovskite solar cells. Sol. Energy 2019, 185, 508–515. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  8. Ma, Z.; Zhou, W.; Xiao, Z.; Zhang, H.; Li, Z.; Zhuang, J.; Peng, C.; Huang, Y. Negligible hysteresis planar perovskite solar cells using Ga-doped SnO2 nanocrystal as electron transport layers. Org. Electron. 2019, 71, 98–105. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  9. Ball, J.M.; Lee, M.M.; Hey, A.; Snaith, H.J. Low-temperature processed meso-superstructured to thin-film perovskite solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, 1739–1743. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  10. Liu, Z.; Chang, J.; Lin, Z.; Zhou, L.; Yang, Z.; Chen, D.; Zhang, C.; Liu, S.; Hao, Y. High-Performance Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Using Low Temperature, Solution–Combustion-Based Nickel Oxide Hole Transporting Layer with Efficiency Exceeding 20%. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1703432. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  11. You, J.; Meng, L.; Song, T.-B.; Guo, T.-F.; Yang, Y.M.; Chang, W.-H.; Hong, Z.; Chen, H.; Zhou, H.; Chen, Q. Improved air stability of perovskite solar cells via solution-processed metal oxide transport layers. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2016, 11, 75–81. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  12. Zhao, D.; Sexton, M.; Park, H.; Baure, G.; Nino, J.C.; So, F. High-efficiency solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells with a polymer hole transport layer. Adv. Energy Mater. 2015, 5, 1401855. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  13. Lai, W.; Lin, K.; Wang, Y.; Chiang, T.; Chen, P.; Guo, T. Oxidized Ni/Au transparent electrode in efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite/fullerene planar heterojunction hybrid solar cells. Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 3290–3297. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  14. Yin, X.; Chen, P.; Que, M.; Xing, Y.; Que, W.; Niu, C.; Shao, J. Highly efficient flexible perovskite solar cells using solution-derived NiOx hole contacts. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 3630–3636. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  15. Seo, S.; Park, I.J.; Kim, M.; Lee, S.; Bae, C.; Jung, H.S.; Park, N.-G.; Kim, J.Y.; Shin, H. An ultra-thin, un-doped NiO hole transporting layer of highly efficient (16.4%) organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells. Nanoscale 2016, 8, 11403–11412. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  16. Kim, J.; Lee, H.R.; Kim, H.P.; Lin, T.; Kanwat, A.; bin Mohd Yusoff, A.R.; Jang, J. Effects of UV-ozone irradiation on copper doped nickel acetate and its applicability to perovskite solar cells. Nanoscale 2016, 8, 9284–9292. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  17. Yin, X.; Yao, Z.; Luo, Q.; Dai, X.; Zhou, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Luo, S.; Li, J.; Wang, N. High efficiency inverted planar perovskite solar cells with solution-processed NiOx hole contact. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 2439–2448. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  18. Shibayama, N.; Kanda, H.; Yusa, S.; Fukumoto, S.; Baranwal, A.K.; Segawa, H.; Miyasaka, T.; Ito, S. All-inorganic inverse perovskite solar cells using zinc oxide nanocolloids on spin coated perovskite layer. Nano Converg. 2017, 4, 18. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  19. Park, J.H.; Seo, J.; Park, S.; Shin, S.S.; Kim, Y.C.; Jeon, N.J.; Shin, H.; Ahn, T.K.; Noh, J.H.; Yoon, S.C. Efficient CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells employing nanostructured p-type NiO electrode formed by a pulsed laser deposition. Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 4013–4019. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  20. Corani, A.; Li, M.-H.; Shen, P.-S.; Chen, P.; Guo, T.-F.; El Nahhas, A.; Zheng, K.; Yartsev, A.; Sundström, V.; Ponseca, C.S., Jr. Ultrafast dynamics of hole injection and recombination in organometal halide perovskite using nickel oxide as p-type contact electrode. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016, 7, 1096–1101. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  21. Chen, W.; Wu, Y.; Liu, J.; Qin, C.; Yang, X.; Islam, A.; Cheng, Y.-B.; Han, L. Hybrid interfacial layer leads to solid performance improvement of inverted perovskite solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 2015, 8, 629–640. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  22. Kim, J.H.; Liang, P.; Williams, S.T.; Cho, N.; Chueh, C.; Glaz, M.S.; Ginger, D.S.; Jen, A.K. High-performance and environmentally stable planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells based on a solution-processed copper-doped nickel oxide hole-transporting layer. Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 695–701. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  23. Kaneko, R.; Chowdhury, T.H.; Wu, G.; Kayesh, M.E.; Kazaoui, S.; Sugawa, K.; Lee, J.-J.; Noda, T.; Islam, A.; Otsuki, J. Cobalt-doped nickel oxide nanoparticles as efficient hole transport materials for low-temperature processed perovskite solar cells. Sol. Energy 2019, 181, 243–250. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  24. Nie, W.; Tsai, H.; Blancon, J.; Liu, F.; Stoumpos, C.C.; Traore, B.; Kepenekian, M.; Durand, O.; Katan, C.; Tretiak, S. Critical role of interface and crystallinity on the performance and photostability of perovskite solar cell on nickel oxide. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1703879. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  25. Ren, G.; Li, Z.; Wu, W.; Han, S.; Liu, C.; Li, Z.; Dong, M.; Guo, W. Performance improvement of planar perovskite solar cells with cobalt-doped interface layer. Appl. Surf. Sci. 2020, 507, 145081. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  26. Sidhik, S.; Cerdan Pasaran, A.; Esparza, D.; Lopez Luke, T.; Carriles, R.; De la Rosa, E. Improving the optoelectronic properties of mesoporous TiO2 by cobalt doping for high-performance hysteresis-free perovskite solar cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 3571–3580. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  27. Ren, X.; Xie, L.; Kim, W.B.; Lee, D.G.; Jung, H.S.; Liu, S. Chemical Bath Deposition of Co-Doped TiO2 Electron Transport Layer for Hysteresis-Suppressed High-Efficiency Planar Perovskite Solar Cells. Sol. RRL 2019, 3, 1900176. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  28. Shannon, R.D. Crystal physics, diffraction, theoretical and general crystallography. Acta Cryst. A 1976, 32, 751–767. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  29. Xie, Y.; Lu, K.; Duan, J.; Jiang, Y.; Hu, L.; Liu, T.; Zhou, Y.; Hu, B. Enhancing Photovoltaic Performance of Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells by Cobalt-Doped Nickel Oxide Hole Transport Layer. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 14153–14159. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  30. Lee, P.-H.; Li, B.-T.; Lee, C.-F.; Huang, Z.-H.; Huang, Y.-C.; Su, W.-F. High-efficiency perovskite solar cell using cobalt doped nickel oxide hole transport layer fabricated by NIR process. Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. Cells 2020, 208, 110352. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  31. Kim, S.; Jeong, J.-E.; Hong, J.; Lee, K.; Lee, M.J.; Woo, H.Y.; Hwang, I. Improved Interfacial Crystallization by Synergic Effects of Precursor Solution Stoichiometry and Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayer for High Open-Circuit Voltage of Perovskite Photovoltaic Diodes. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 12328–12336. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  32. Rawat, S.S.; Kumar, A.; Srivastava, R.; Suman, C.K. Efficiency Enhancement in Organic Solar Cells by Use of Cobalt Phthalocyanine (CoPc) Thin Films. J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 2020, 20, 3703–3709. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  33. Wang, G.; Wang, L.; Qiu, J.; Yan, Z.; Li, C.; Dai, C.; Zhen, C.; Tai, K.; Yu, W.; Jiang, X. In Situ Passivation on Rear Perovskite Interface for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 7690–7700. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  34. Nie, W.; Tsai, H.; Asadpour, R.; Blancon, J.-C.; Neukirch, A.J.; Gupta, G.; Crochet, J.J.; Chhowalla, M.; Tretiak, S.; Alam, M.A. High-efficiency solution-processed perovskite solar cells with millimeter-scale grains. Science 2015, 347, 522–525. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [Green Version]
  35. Jiang, F.; Choy, W.C.H.; Li, X.; Zhang, D.; Cheng, J.; Non, P.-F.S.-P. stoichiometric NiOx Nanoparticles for Effi cient Hole-Transport Layers of Organic Optoelectronic Devices. Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 2930–2937. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  36. Méndez, P.F.; Muhammed, S.K.M.; Barea, E.M.; Masi, S.; Mora-Seró, I. Analysis of the UV–Ozone-Treated SnO2 Electron Transporting Layer in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells for High Performance and Reduced Hysteresis. Sol. RRL 2019, 3, 1900191. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  37. Saliba, M.; Correa-Baena, J.-P.; Wolff, C.M.; Stolterfoht, M.; Phung, N.; Albrecht, S.; Neher, D.; Abate, A. How to Make over 20% Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells in Regular (n–i–p) and Inverted (p–i–n) Architectures. Chem. Mater. 2018, 30, 4193–4201. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  38. Fominykh, K.; Tok, G.C.; Zeller, P.; Hajiyani, H.; Miller, T.; Döblinger, M.; Pentcheva, R.; Bein, T.; Fattakhova-Rohlfing, D. Rock Salt Ni/Co Oxides with Unusual Nanoscale-Stabilized Composition as Water Splitting Electrocatalysts. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1605121. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  39. He, Q.; Yao, K.; Wang, X.; Xia, X.; Leng, S.; Li, F. Room-temperature and solution-processable Cu-doped nickel oxide nanoparticles for efficient hole-transport layers of flexible large-area perovskite solar cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 41887–41897. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  40. Natu, G.; Hasin, P.; Huang, Z.; Ji, Z.; He, M.; Wu, Y. Valence band-edge engineering of nickel oxide nanoparticles via cobalt doping for application in p-type dye-sensitized solar cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2012, 4, 5922–5929. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  41. Lee, J.H.; Noh, Y.W.; Jin, I.S.; Park, S.H.; Jung, J.W. A solution-processed cobalt-doped nickel oxide for high efficiency inverted type perovskite solar cells. J. Power Sources 2019, 412, 425–432. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  42. Zhang, J.; Wang, J.; Fu, Y.; Zhang, B.; Xie, Z. Efficient and stable polymer solar cells with annealing-free solution-processible NiO nanoparticles as anode buffer layers. J. Mater. Chem. C 2014, 2, 8295–8302. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  43. Chen, W.; Liu, F.; Feng, X.; Djurišić, A.B.; Chan, W.K.; He, Z. Cesium doped NiOx as an efficient hole extraction layer for inverted planar perovskite solar cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7, 1700722. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  44. Stolterfoht, M.; Le Corre, V.M.; Feuerstein, M.; Caprioglio, P.; Koster, L.J.A.; Neher, D. Voltage-Dependent Photoluminescence and How It Correlates with the Fill Factor and Open-Circuit Voltage in Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Energy Lett. 2019, 4, 2887–2892. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  45. Contreras-Bernal, L.; Ramos-Terrón, S.; Riquelme, A.; Boix, P.P.; Idígoras, J.; Mora-Seró, I.; Anta, J.A. Impedance analysis of perovskite solar cells: A case study. J. Mater. Chem. A 2019, 7, 12191–12200. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  46. Tress, W.; Yavari, M.; Domanski, K.; Yadav, P.; Niesen, B.; Baena, J.P.C.; Hagfeldt, A.; Graetzel, M. Interpretation and evolution of open-circuit voltage, recombination, ideality factor and subgap defect states during reversible light-soaking and irreversible degradation of perovskite solar cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 2018, 11, 151–165. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g001 550
Figure 1. Sketch of the Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles synthesis.
Figure 1. Sketch of the Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles synthesis.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g001
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g002 550
Figure 2. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and relative histograms of the nanoparticles size distributions of (a) NiOx nanoparticles; (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles.
Figure 2. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and relative histograms of the nanoparticles size distributions of (a) NiOx nanoparticles; (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx nanoparticles.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g002
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g003 550
Figure 3. (a) X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of the NiOx and Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles; (b) optical transmission spectra for the NiOx and Co-NiOx films fabricated on top of ITO substrates, where the thickness of the Co-NiOx films was around 37 nm.
Figure 3. (a) X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of the NiOx and Co-doped NiOx nanoparticles; (b) optical transmission spectra for the NiOx and Co-NiOx films fabricated on top of ITO substrates, where the thickness of the Co-NiOx films was around 37 nm.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g003
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g004 550
Figure 4. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of the NiOx and Co-NiOx films on glass substrate. (a) NiOx; (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx.
Figure 4. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of the NiOx and Co-NiOx films on glass substrate. (a) NiOx; (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g004
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g005 550
Figure 5. Top view SEM images for perovskite layers fabricated on the top of NiOx or Co-NiOx layer; (a) NiOx. (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx; (g) corresponding perovskite X-ray diffraction patterns.
Figure 5. Top view SEM images for perovskite layers fabricated on the top of NiOx or Co-NiOx layer; (a) NiOx. (b) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (c) 1 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) 1.25 mol% Co-NiOx; (e) 2.5 mol% Co-NiOx; (f) 5 mol% Co-NiOx; (g) corresponding perovskite X-ray diffraction patterns.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g005
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g006 550
Figure 6. (a) Sketch of the device architecture; Cross-sectional SEM images for perovskite layers fabricated on the top of NiOx or Co-NiOx layer: (b) NiOx and (c) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) J/V curves of PSCs using 0.75–5 mol% Co-NiOx and bare NiOx as hole-transporter materials (HTMs). (e) incident photons to current efficiency (IPCE) of 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx and NiOx based champion base devices.
Figure 6. (a) Sketch of the device architecture; Cross-sectional SEM images for perovskite layers fabricated on the top of NiOx or Co-NiOx layer: (b) NiOx and (c) 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx; (d) J/V curves of PSCs using 0.75–5 mol% Co-NiOx and bare NiOx as hole-transporter materials (HTMs). (e) incident photons to current efficiency (IPCE) of 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx and NiOx based champion base devices.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g006
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g007 550
Figure 7. (a) Photoluminescence (PL) of MAPbI3 films on top of NiOx and 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx. The MAPbI3 on top of glass was used as a reference measurement; (b) time-resolves PL of the corresponding samples; (c) Voc vs. different light intensity for 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx and NiOx.
Figure 7. (a) Photoluminescence (PL) of MAPbI3 films on top of NiOx and 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx. The MAPbI3 on top of glass was used as a reference measurement; (b) time-resolves PL of the corresponding samples; (c) Voc vs. different light intensity for 0.75 mol% Co-NiOx and NiOx.
Nanomaterials 10 00872 g007
Table
Table 1. NiOx processing temperature and the corresponding best efficiency obtained for inverted perovskite solar cells; ITO: Indium tin oxide; PCBM: Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester; BCP: bathocuproine.
Table 1. NiOx processing temperature and the corresponding best efficiency obtained for inverted perovskite solar cells; ITO: Indium tin oxide; PCBM: Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester; BCP: bathocuproine.
Device ConfigurationNiOx Processing
Temperature		Increasing FF (%) by Adding DopantPCE (%)Refs.
Glass/ITO/Co-NiOx/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/BCP/Ag130 °C616.42This work
Glass/ITO/Co-NiOx/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/BCP/Ag130 °C614.5[23]
Glass/ITO/Co-NiOx/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/PEI/Ag400 °C218.5[29]
Glass/FTO/NIR-Co-NiOx/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/PEI/Ag300 °C017.77[30]
Glass/ITO/Co-NiOx (solution-processed)/CH3NH3PbI3/PCBM/C60/Ag340 °C1017.52[34]
Table
Table 2. Photovoltaic performance by J/V measurements with reverse scan under standard illumination (100 mW cm−2) for champion devices and averaged.
Table 2. Photovoltaic performance by J/V measurements with reverse scan under standard illumination (100 mW cm−2) for champion devices and averaged.
Co-doping (mol%)FF (%)Jsc (mA cm−2)Voc (mV)Best PCE (%)Average PCE ± s.d. (%)
07019.596813.211.47 ± 1.08
0.757621.5100516.4214.02 ± 1.3
17519.592013.4511.66 ± 1.1
1.257619.759381411.75 ± 1.3
2.57518.792412.911.13 ± 0.8
55618.79109.58.7 ± 0.6

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Marand, Z.R.; Kermanpur, A.; Karimzadeh, F.; Barea, E.M.; Hassanabadi, E.; Anaraki, E.H.; Julián-López, B.; Masi, S.; Mora-Seró, I. Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells. Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 872. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050872

AMA Style

Marand ZR, Kermanpur A, Karimzadeh F, Barea EM, Hassanabadi E, Anaraki EH, Julián-López B, Masi S, Mora-Seró I. Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells. Nanomaterials. 2020; 10(5):872. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050872

Chicago/Turabian Style

Marand, Zahra Rezay, Ahmad Kermanpur, Fathallah Karimzadeh, Eva M. Barea, Ehsan Hassanabadi, Elham Halvani Anaraki, Beatriz Julián-López, Sofia Masi, and Iván Mora-Seró. 2020. "Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells" Nanomaterials 10, no. 5: 872. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050872

APA Style

Marand, Z. R., Kermanpur, A., Karimzadeh, F., Barea, E. M., Hassanabadi, E., Anaraki, E. H., Julián-López, B., Masi, S., & Mora-Seró, I. (2020). Structural and Electrical Investigation of Cobalt-Doped NiOx/Perovskite Interface for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells. Nanomaterials, 10(5), 872. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10050872

Note that from the first issue of 2016, this journal uses article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Metrics

Back to TopTop