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Effect of electrical parameters on lead-based perovskite solar cell for high-efficiency performance

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In the present work, a p-i-n structured perovskite solar cell is designed and simulated using SCAPS-1D software. A novel combination of perovskite absorber CH3NH3PbI3 in between HTL CuSCN and ETL SnO2 is expected to have better stability and potential easy fabrication, while providing better performance than the existing architecture. Different parameters, namely thickness, acceptor density and defect density of CH3NH3PbI3, CuSCN and SnO2 are varied and their corresponding effect on the output parameters such as Voc, Jsc, FF and PCE have been studied. The thickness and acceptor density of absorber and the donor density of ETL layer were the most influential parameters, as changes in these parameters yielded a drastic change in performance. After the optimization of device structure, an efficiency of 21.96% is predicted, along with a Voc of 1.0084 V, FF of 72.39% and a JSC of 30.086 mA/cm2.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Marc Burgelman (University of Gent) for providing the simulation software SCAPS.

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Krishna, R.V., Laxmi, Mahapatra, B. et al. Effect of electrical parameters on lead-based perovskite solar cell for high-efficiency performance. Opt Quant Electron 54, 513 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-022-03738-0

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