Dibenzo-Tetraphenyl Diindeno as Hole Transport Layer for Perovskite Solar Cells Fabrication

Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells have the competitive edge of being employed for building integrated photovoltaics due to their aesthetic benefits as light harvesting windows / facades. Perovskites have received considerable attention in recent years as a thin film photovoltaic alternative, that can also be tweaked for its transparency, evolving from potentially high bandgaps that are suited for semi-transparent solar cell fabrication. Due to the existing trade of between the efficiency and transparency of a perovskite solar cell, tuning the band gap can address this by making a bridge between the aforementioned parameters. We report our findings on the use of a wide-bandgap perovskite MAPbBr₃, with a rational energetic level hole transport materials based on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules that can be a promising alternative class of p-type material. In the present work, DBP (Dibenzo{[f,f' ]-4,4',7,7'-tetraphenyl}diindeno[1,2,3-cd :1',2',3'-lm]perylene, was evaluated with high band gap as well as with (FAPbI₃)_0.85(MAPbBr₃)_0.15 perovskites for the fabrication of solar cell. DBP based solar cells yielded competitive power conversion efficiencies as compared to classical HTMs.