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Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition of NiO hole transport layers for planar perovskite cells
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David Richards,
Trystan Watson
Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume: 385, Start page: 125423
Swansea University Authors:
Simone Meroni , Trystan Watson
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2020.125423
Abstract
Thin films of polycrystalline NiO were deposited by Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition, which is an ideal process for in-line, atmospheric pressure deposition of wide area coatings. This, along with the ability to use aqueous salts rather than organic precursors or solvents makes it well suit...
| Published in: | Surface and Coatings Technology |
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| ISSN: | 0257-8972 1879-3347 |
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Elsevier BV
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53383 |
| Abstract: |
Thin films of polycrystalline NiO were deposited by Flame Assisted Chemical Vapour Deposition, which is an ideal process for in-line, atmospheric pressure deposition of wide area coatings. This, along with the ability to use aqueous salts rather than organic precursors or solvents makes it well suited for industrial integration. To establish the capability of FACVD deposited NiO for use as a low cost, commercially viable option planar perovskite cells were fabricated under ambient conditions. The resulting cells showed the importance of both the flame composition and NiO thickness. A continuous NiO Hole Transport Layer (HTL) was achieved for ca. 36 nm thick film, which showed a maximum higher efficiency of 12.3% over that of the control (11.8%) which used a spin coated HTL. This was mainly driven by the large improvement in the current density from 16.6 mA/cm2 to 19.0 mA/cm2. |
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| Keywords: |
FACVD; CVD; NiO; Perovskite; Hole transport |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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HY and JLH received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 653296 (CHEOPS). SM and TW received funding from the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund project, SUNRISE (EP/P032591/1). DR and TW acknowledge the financial support provided by the M2A that has been made possible through funding from the European Social Fund via the Welsh Government, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L015099/1) and TATA Steel.
XPS data collection was performed at the EPSRC National Facility for XPS (‘HarwellXPS’), operated by Cardiff University and UCL, under contract No. PR16195. G. Parr, Salford Analytical Services provided the SEM images. |
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