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Inorganic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cell

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Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics

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Organo-lead halide perovskites have attracted much attention for solar cell applications due to their high-efficiency—over 20 %—and the low-cost of fabrication without vacuum processing [1–4]. The main research has been performed using organic hole conductors (mostly, 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis(N,N′-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) and poly-[3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl](P3HT)) in an attempt to build efficient hybrid perovskite solar cells. However, the organic hole-transporting materials (HTM) used are normally quite expensive due to complicated synthesis procedures or high purity requirements. Moreover, the instability of these organic compounds has been a major issue with regard to commercial applications. Therefore, instead of organic materials, research of stable and low-cost inorganic materials is very significant for large-scale industrial applications.

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Ito, S. (2016). Inorganic Hole-Transporting Materials for Perovskite Solar Cell. In: Park, NG., Grätzel, M., Miyasaka, T. (eds) Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-35114-8_14

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