High-Performance ITO-Free Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films
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jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThe unprecedented advancement in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has rendered them a promising game‐changer in photovoltaics. However, unsatisfactory environmental stability and high manufacturing cost of window electrodes are bottlenecks impeding their commercialization. Here, a strategy is introduced to address these bottlenecks by replacing the costly indium tin oxide (ITO) window electrodes via a simple transfer technique with single‐walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) films, which are made of earth‐abundant elements with superior chemical and environmental stability. The resultant devices exhibit PCEs of ≈19% on rigid substrates, which is the highest value reported to date for ITO‐free PSCs. The facile approach for SWCNTs also enables application in flexible PSCs (f‐PSCs), delivering a PCE of ≈18% with superior mechanical robustness over their ITO‐based counterparts due to the excellent mechanical properties of SWCNTs. The SWCNT‐based PSCs also deliver satisfactory performances on large‐area (1 cmjats:sup2</jats:sup> active area in this work). Furthermore, these SWCNT‐based PSCs can retain over 80% of original PCEs after exposure to air over 700 h while ITO‐based devices only sustain ≈60% of initial PCEs. This work paves a promising way to accelerate the commercialization of ITO‐free PSCs with reduced material cost and prolonged lifetimes.</jats:p>
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1616-3028