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High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells: Materials and Devices Engineering

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Since the first report on 9.7% efficient solid-state perovskite solar cell (PSC) in 2012, perovskite photovoltaics received tremendous attentions. Efforts to increase power conversion efficiency (PCE) have been continuously made. As a result, a record PCE of 25.2% was certified in 2019, which surpassed those achieved from the conventional solar cells based on CIGS and CdTe. The superb photovoltaic performance of PSC is related to the defect-tolerant property, the long carrier lifetime, the long diffusion length of photo-generated carriers, and the high absorption coefficient. In this review, materials and devices engineering are described for achieving stability and higher PCE in PSCs. From the practical point of view, key technologies for materials, coating, and device fabrication are described, which is expected to be helpful to achieve high efficiency PSCs. Moreover, interfacial engineering methodologies toward hysteresis-less and stable PSCs are also presented to give insight into better understanding ion migration and recombination in PSCs.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grants funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT Future Planning (MSIP) of Korea under contracts NRF-2012M3A6A7054861 (Global Frontier R&D Program on Center for Multiscale Energy System), NRF-2016M3D1A1027663 and NRF-2016M3D1A1027664 (Future Materials Discovery Program) and NRF-2015M1A2A2053004 (Climate Change Management Program).

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Park, NG. High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells: Materials and Devices Engineering. Trans. Electr. Electron. Mater. 21, 1–15 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42341-019-00156-0

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