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Potentials and challenges towards application of perovskite solar cells

钙钛矿太阳能电池工业化面临的潜力和挑战

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The key progress in the development of solar cells based on mixed organic-inorganic halide perovskite was reviewed. Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have developed rapidly and achieved highest efficiency exceeding 20% in these years. The origin, working principle and fabrication technology of PSCs are stated, and several promising methods to realize the industrialization of the solar cell modules have been put forward. Meanwhile, two main problems existing in PSCs have been pointed out, hysteresis in the photocurrent density-voltage measurement and the instability of perovskite, which have impacted the application of PSCs seriously. Efforts and study in order to solve these problems are also listed. The fundamental mechanism still needs further investigation so as to improve the performance of PSCs and realize their large-scale application eventually.

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本文对有机-无机杂化钙钛矿太阳能电池的主要发展进程进行了阐述和研究. 钙钛矿电池因其高效率、低成本引起了业界广泛关注,并在短短几年内迅速发展, 最高效率已经超过20%. 本文通过讨论钙钛矿电池的起源、发展、工作原理和结构的变迁, 提出了几种最有可能实现工业化目标的器件制备方案, 并分别对其进行了分析. 同时, 文章指出了目前影响钙钛矿电池产业化发展和应用的两个主要问题: 回滞现象和稳定性, 对其产生的原因进行了分析, 并总结了几种可能的解决办法.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Jing Wei  (魏静), Chenglong Shi  (施成龙), Yicheng Zhao  (赵怡程), Wenke Zhou  (周文可), Heng Li  (李恒), Rui Fu  (伏睿), Dapeng Yu  (俞大鹏) & Qing Zhao  (赵清)

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, 100084, China

    Jing Wei  (魏静), Chenglong Shi  (施成龙), Yicheng Zhao  (赵怡程), Wenke Zhou  (周文可), Heng Li  (李恒), Rui Fu  (伏睿), Dapeng Yu  (俞大鹏) & Qing Zhao  (赵清)

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Jing Wei is a PhD candidate of the School of Physics at Peking University under the supervision of Prof. Dapeng Yu and Prof. Qing Zhao. She received her BSc degree (2012) from the School of Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She joined Prof. Yu’s group in summer 2012, and she is especially interested in new types of photovoltaic materials and devices.

Dapeng Yu is a Chang Kung Professorship in physics in the School of Physics, Peking University. He received his PhD degree (1993) in the Laboratoire de Physicque des Solides, Université Paris-sud, Orsay, France, and then joined the Department of Physics, Peking University in 1995. His current interests are 1D semiconductor nanowires, transport in low-D materials, and single DNA detection/sequencing via solid state nanopore microscope.

Qing Zhao is an associate professor in the School of Physics, Peking University. She received her PhD degree (2006) from the School of Physics, Peking University. She spent two years working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Bioengineering, University ofWashington, USA. Her current research interests include novel flexible photovoltaic and energy storage devices based on nanostructures, and single molecule detection based on solid-state nanopores.

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Wei, J., Shi, C., Zhao, Y. et al. Potentials and challenges towards application of perovskite solar cells. Sci. China Mater. 59, 769–778 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40843-016-5082-4

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