TiO2 Electron Transport Bilayer for Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cell

Abstract

In planar perovskite solar cells, it is vital to engineer the extraction and recombination of electron-hole pairs at the electron transport layer/perovskite interface for obtaining high performance. This study reports a novel titanium oxide (TiO₂ ) bilayer with different Fermi energy levels by combing atomic layer deposition and spin-coating technique. Energy band alignments of TiO₂ bilayer can be modulated by controlling the deposition order of layers. The TiO₂ bilayer based perovskite solar cells are highly efficient in carrier extraction, recombination suppression, and defect passivation, and thus demonstrate champion efficiencies up to 16.5%, presenting almost 50% enhancement compared to the TiO₂ single layer based counterparts. The results suggest that the bilayer with type II band alignment as electron transport layers provides an efficient approach for constructing high-performance planar perovskite solar cells.

Keywords: atomic layer deposition; band alignment; electron transport layer; perovskite solar cells; titanium oxide.