Effect of electrochemically deposited MgO coating on printable perovskite solar cell performance

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Herein, we studied the effect of MgO coating thickness on the performance of printable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by varying the electrodeposition time of Mg(OH)2 on the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/TiO2 electrode. Electrodeposited Mg(OH)2 in the electrode was confirmed by energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) images. The performance of printable PSC structures on different deposition times of Mg(OH)2 was evaluated on the basis of their photocurrent density-voltage characteristics. The overall results confirmed that the insulating MgO coating has an adverse effect on the photovoltaic performance of the solid state printable PSCs. However, a marginal improvement in the device efficiency was obtained for the device made with the 30 s electrodeposited TiO2 electrode. We believe that this undesirable effect on the photovoltaic performance of the printable PSCs is due to the higher coverage of TiO2 by the insulating MgO layer attained by the electrodeposition technique.

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Peiris, T. A. N., Baranwal, A. K., Kanda, H., Fukumoto, S., Kanaya, S., Bessho, T., … Ito, S. (2017). Effect of electrochemically deposited MgO coating on printable perovskite solar cell performance. Coatings, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings7030036

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