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Numerical study of eco-friendly Sn-based Perovskite solar cell with 25.48% efficiency using SCAPS-1D

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Today’s perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) have become the fastest growing photovoltaic cells. The lead (Pb)-based PSCs attain the best efficiency, but despite their many advantages, these SCs have a major issue of its toxicity. The issue of toxicity is solved by using Pb-free perovskite material. Here, solar cell architecture comprising Pb-free perovskite, FTO/TiO2/CH3NH3SnI3/CZTS/Au is discussed. A fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) is used as a transparent conducting window layer and gold is used as a back contact. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is used as an electron transport layer (ETL), while copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) is used as a hole transport layer (HTL). The PSC is simulated by using Solar Cell Capacitance Simulator (SCAPS-1D) software. The thickness of the absorber (CH3NH3SnI3) layer, ETL and HTL is varied. The operating temperature is also varied from 300 and 350 K. The best-chosen values of the acceptor density of absorber layer and HTL are 1016 cm−3 and 1019 cm−3, respectively, while the optimized donor density (ND) of ETL is 1020 cm−3. The solar cell performance decreases with the increase in defect density (Nt). The performances of solar cell with and without HTL are also discussed, and maximum efficiency is achieved after the introduction of HTL. The designed Sn-based PSC exhibits the highest efficiency of 25.48% with an open-circuit voltage = 0.99 V, short-circuit current = 32.95 mA/cm2 and fill factor = 77.77%.

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The authors would like to thanks to Dr. Marc Burgelman, University of Gent, Belgium, for providing the SCAPS-1D simulation software.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, School of Physical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, India

    Raj Jaiswal & Rajanish N. Tiwari

  2. Department of Physics, School of Physical Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, India

    Rahutsoh Ranjan, Neelabh Srivastava & Arvind Kumar Sharma

  3. Toyota Technological Institute, 2-12-1 Hisakata, Tampaku-Ku, Nagoya, 468-8511, Japan

    Masamichi Yoshimura & Rajanish N. Tiwari

  4. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Li Chang & Rajanish N. Tiwari

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The structure model and data collection and analysis were performed by RJ and RR. NS, AKS, MY, LC and RNT jointly reviewed and checked the procedures and results. The first draft of the manuscript was written by RJ and RR and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Jaiswal, R., Ranjan, R., Srivastava, N. et al. Numerical study of eco-friendly Sn-based Perovskite solar cell with 25.48% efficiency using SCAPS-1D. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 753 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10171-w

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