Study the Effect of Thickness on the Performance of PM6:Y6 Organic Solar Using SCAPS Simulation

In this study, organic solar cells (OSCs) with an active layer, a blend of polymer of non-fullerene (NFA) Y6 as an acceptor, and donor PBDB-T-2F as donor were simulated through the one-dimensional solar capacitance simulator (SCAPS-1D) software to examine the performance of this type of organic polymer thin-film solar cell by varying the thickness of the active layer. PFN-Br interfacial layer entrenched in OPV devices gives overall enhanced open-circuit voltage, short-circuit current density and fill factor thus improving device performance. PEDOT: PSS is an electro-conductive polymer solution that has been extensively utilized in solar cell devices as a hole transport layer (HTL) due to its strong hole affinity, good thermal and mechanical stability, high work function, and high transparency in the visible range. The structure of the organic solar cell is ITO/PEDOT: PSS/BTP-4F: PBDB-T-2F/PFN-Br/Ag. Firstly, the active layer thickness was optimized to 100 nm;after that, the active-layer thickness was varied up to 900 nm. The results of these simulations demonstrated that the active layer thickness improves efficiency significantly up to 500 nm, then it decreased with increasing the thickness of the active layer from 600 nm, also notice that the short circuit current and the fill factor decrease with increasing the active layer from 600 nm, while the open voltage circuit increased with increasing the thickness of the active layer. The optimum thickness is 500 nm.

Perovskite Solar Cells Yielding Reproducible Photovoltage of 1.20 V

High photovoltages and power conversion efciencies of perovskite solar cells(PSCs)can be realized by controlling the undesired nonradiative charge carrier recombination.Here,we introduce a judicious amount of guanidinium iodide into mixed-cation and mixed-halide perovskite flms to suppress the parasitic charge carrier recombination,which enabled the fabrication of>20%efcient and operationally stable PSCs yielding reproducible photovoltageas high as 1.20 V.By introducing guanidinium iodide into the perovskite precursor solution,the bandgap of the resulting absorber material changed minimally;however,the nonradiative recombination diminished considerably as revealed by time-resolved photoluminescence and electroluminescence studies.Furthermore,using capacitance-frequency measurements,we were able to correlate the hysteresis features exhibited by the PSCs with interfacial charge accumulation.Tis study opens up a path to realize new record efciencies for PSCs based on guanidinium iodide doped perovskite flms.