WO2013171518A1 - Optoelectronic device comprising porous scaffold material and perovskites - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic devices such as solar cells, and light-emitting devices.
- Dye-sensitized solar cells are composed of a mesoporous n-type metal oxide photoanode, sensitized with organic or metal complex dye and infiltrated with a redox active electrolyte.
- a redox active electrolyte a mesoporous n-type metal oxide photoanode, sensitized with organic or metal complex dye and infiltrated with a redox active electrolyte.
- organic solar cells is a nanostructured composite of a light absorbing and hole-transporting polymer blended with a fullerene derivative acting as the n- type semiconductor and electron acceptor [Yu, G., J. Gao, et al. (1995) Science 270(5243): 1789-1791 and Halls, J. J. M., C. A. Walsh, et al. (1995) Nature 376(6540): 498-500].
- the most efficient organic solar cells are now just over 10% [Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012).
- CZTSS copper zinc tin sulphide selenide
- the first requirement is that it absorbs most of the sun light over the visible to near infrared region (300 to 900nm), and converts the light effectively to charge. Beyond this however, the charge needs to be collected at a high voltage in order to do useful work, and it is the generation of a high voltage with suitable current that is the most challenging aspect for the emerging solar technologies.
- a simple measure of how effective a solar cell is at generating voltage from the light it absorbs, is the difference energy between the optical band gap of the absorber and the open-circuit voltage generated by the solar cell under standard AM1.5G lOOmWcm "2 solar illumination [H J Snaith et al. Adv. Func. Matter 2009, 19 , 1-7].
- the semiconducting polymer is blended with an electron accepting molecule, typically a fullerene derivative, which enables charge separation.
- an electron accepting molecule typically a fullerene derivative
- Dye- sensitized solar cells have losses, both due to electron transfer from the dye (the absorber) into the Ti0 2 which requires a certain "driving force" and due to dye regeneration from the electrolyte which requires an "over potential”.
- An extremely thin absorber (ETA) (few nm thick) layer is coated upon the internal surface of a mesoporous Ti0 2 electrode, and subsequently contacted with a solid-state hole-conductor or electrolyte.
- ETA extremely thin absorber
- Sb 2 S3 as the absorber
- These devices have achieved efficiencies of up to 7% for solid-state devices employing Sb 2 S3 as the absorber,[ J. A. Chang et al., Nano Lett. 12, 1863-1867 (2012)] and up to 6.5% employing a lead-halide perovskite in photoelectrochemical solar cell.[ A. Kojima, K. Teshima, Y. Shirai, T.
- the present inventors have provided optoelectronic devices which exhibit many favourable properties including high device efficiency. Record power conversion efficiencies as high as 11.5% have been demonstrated under simulated AMI .5 full sun light.
- a device which comprises (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material and (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, so that it is supported on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold.
- a charge transporting material is typically also employed, which infiltrates into the porous structure of the scaffold material so that it is in contact with the semiconductor that is supported on the scaffold.
- the semiconductor typically acts as a light- absorbing, photosensitising material, as well as an charge-transporting material.
- the porous nanostructure of the semiconductor/scaffold composite helps rapidly to remove the holes from the n-type absorber, so that purely majority carriers are present in the absorber layer. This overcomes the issue of short diffusion lengths which would arise if the semiconductor were employed in solid, thin-film form.
- the materials used in the device of the invention are inexpensive, abundant and readily available and the individual components of the devices exhibit surprisingly stability. Further, the methods of producing the device are suitable for large-scale production.
- the inventors have taken advantage of the properties of inorganic semiconductors by using a layered organometal halide perovskite as the absorber, which is composed of abundant elements.
- This material may be processed from a precursor solution via spin-coating in ambient conditions. In a solid-thin film form, it operates moderately well as a solar cell with a maximum efficiency of 3%.
- the inventors have created the above- mentioned nanostructured composite.
- the scaffold is a mesoporous insulating aluminium oxide, which is subsequently coated with the perovskite film and dried which realises a mesoporous perovskite electrode.
- This new architecture and material system has an optical band gap of 1.56eV and generates up to 1.1V open-circuit voltage under AM1.5G lOOmWcm "2 sun light. This difference, which represents the fundamental loses in the solar cell, is only 0.44eV, lower than any other emerging photovoltaic technology. The overall power conversion efficiency of 11.5% is also one of the highest reported, and represents the starting point for this exciting technology. With mind to the very low potential drop from band gap to open-circuit voltage, this concept has scope to become the dominating low cost solar technology.
- the invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention as defined above is an optoelectronic device which comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; and
- the invention further provides the use, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device, of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
- a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device.
- the invention provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
- Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a photovoltaic device comprising a mixed-anion perovskite.
- Figure 2 is an isometric cross-section drawing of a generic meso-superstructured solar cell: (1) metal cathode, (2) hole-conducting material, mesoporous insulating metal oxide with absorber and hole-conducting material (see Figure 4 for clarification), (3) transparent conducting metal oxide (anode), (4) transparent substrate, (5) metal anode, (6) compact n- type metal oxide.
- Figure 3 is a schematic showing cross-section of the 'active layer' of a generic nanostructured solar cell: (2(i)) light sensitive absorber, (2(ii)) insulating metal oxide, metal cathode, (6) compact n-type metal oxide, (7) hole-conducting material.
- Figure 4 shows the current-voltage characteristics under simulated AM1.5G illumination of a device assembled in mesoporous absorber structure with hole-conductor: F:Sn0 2 /Compact Ti0 2 /Mesoporous A1 2 0 3 / CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 I /Spiro OMeTAD/Ag.
- the voltage in volts is plotted on the x-axis and the current density in mAcm "2 is plotted on the y-axis.
- Figure 5 shows the UV-Vis absorbance spectra for a device assembled in absorber-sensitised structure with hole-conductor: F:Sn0 2 /Compact Ti0 2 /mesoporous oxide/ CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 I /Spiro OMeTAD sealed using surlyn and epoxy with light soaking under simulated AM1.5G illumination over time.
- F:Sn0 2 /Compact Ti0 2 /mesoporous oxide/ CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 I /Spiro OMeTAD sealed using surlyn and epoxy with light soaking under simulated AM1.5G illumination over time.
- the absorbance in arbitrary units is plotted on the y-axis.
- FIG. 6 shows the Incident Photon-to-Electron Conversion Efficiency (IPCE) action spectra of a device assembled in mesoporous absorber structure with hole-conductor:
- Figure 7 is a graph of optical band gap on the x-axis against the open-circuit voltage on the y- axis for the "best-in-class" solar cells for most current solar technologies. All the data for the GaAs, Si, CIGS, CdTe, nanocrystaline Si (ncSi), amorphous Si (aSi), CZTSS organic photovoltaics (OPV) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) was taken from Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables version 39).” Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20.
- the optical band gap has been estimated by taking the onset of the incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency, as described in [Barkhouse DAR, Gunawan O, Gokmen T, Todorov TK, Mitzi DB. Device characteristics of a 10.1% hydrazineprocessed Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4 solar cell. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 2012; published online DOI: 10.1002/pip. l l60.]
- Figure 8 is an X-ray diffraction pattern extracted at room temperature from CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 I thin film coated onto glass slide by using X'pert Pro X-ray Diffractometer. #
- Figure 9 shows a cross sectional SEM image of a complete photoactive layer; Glass-FTO- mesoporous A1203 -K330-spiro-OMeTAD .
- Figure 10(a) shows UV-vis absorption spectra of the range of FOPbI 3y Br 3( i -y ) perovskites and Figure 10(b) shows steady-state photoluminescence spectra of the same samples.
- Figure 1 l(a-c) provides schematic diagrams of: (a) the general perovskite ABX 3 unit cell; (b) the cubic perovskite lattice structure (the unit cell is shown as an overlaid square); and (c) the tetragonal perovskite lattice structure arising from a distortion of the BX 6 octahedra (the unit cell is shown as the larger overlaid square, and the pseudocubic unit cell that it can be described by is shown as the smaller overlaid square).
- Figure 11(d) shows X-ray diffraction data for the FOPbI 3y Br 3( i -y ) perovskites, for various values of y ranging from 0 to 1.
- Figure 11(e) shows a magnification of the transition between the (100) cubic peak and the (110) tetragonal peak, corresponding to the (100) pseudocubic peak, as the system moves from bromide to iodide.
- Figure 11(f) shows a plot of bandgap against calculated pseudocubic lattice parameter.
- Figure 12(a) shows average current-voltage characteristics for a batch of solar cells comprising FOPbl 3y Br 3( i -y) perovskites sensitizing mesoporous titania, with spiro-OMeTAD as the hole transporter, measured under simulated AMI .5 sunlight.
- Figure 12(b) shows a normalised external quantum efficiency for representative cells
- Figure 12(c) shows a plot of the device parameters of merit for the batch, as a function of the iodine fraction, y, in the FOPbI 3y Br 3( i -y) perovskite.
- Figure 13 shows plots of device parameters of merit for (i) a meso-superstructured solar cell device (mesocrystal or MSSC), (ii) a Ti0 2 nanoparticle device and (iii) an alumina device.
- Figure 14 shows the characteristic current voltage of the three device types shown in Figure 13.
- the invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
- the term "porous” refers to a material within which pores are arranged.
- a “porous dielectric scaffold material” the pores are volumes within the dielectric scaffold where there is no dielectric scaffold material.
- the individual pores may be the same size or different sizes.
- the size of the pores is defined as the "pore size".
- the pore size is equal to the diameter of the sphere.
- the pore size is equal to the diameter of a sphere, the volume of said sphere being equal to the volume of the non-spherical pore.
- dielectric material refers to material which is an electrical insulator or a very poor conductor of electric current.
- dielectric therefore excludes semiconducting materials such as titania.
- dielectric typically refers to materials having a band gap of equal to or greater than 4.0 eV. (The band gap of titania is about 3.2 eV.)
- porous dielectric scaffold material refers to a dielectric material which is itself porous, and which is capable of acting as a support for a further material such as said coating comprising said perovskite.
- semiconductor refers to a material with electrical conductivity intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and a dielectric.
- the semiconductor may be an n-type semiconductor, a p-type semiconductor or an intrinsic semiconductor.
- n-type refers to an n-type, or electron
- the n-type semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable n-type semiconductor.
- the term "p-type" refers to a p-type, or hole transporting material.
- the p-type semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable p-type semiconductor.
- the intrinsic semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable intrinsic semiconductor.
- the semiconductor may be a compound or elemental semiconductor comprising any element in the periodic table or any combination of elements in the periodic table.
- Examples of semiconductors which can be used in the optoelectronic device of the invention include perovskites; and compounds comprising gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodinium, palladium, copper or lead, for instance, a chalcogenides of antimony, copper, zinc, iron, or bismuth (such as copper sulphide, iron sulphide, iron pyrite); copper zinc tin chalcogenides, for example, copper zinc tin sulphides such a Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) and copper zinc tin sulphur-selenides such as Cu 2 ZnSn(Si -x Se x )4 (CZTSSe); copper indium chalcogenides such as copper indium selenide (CIS); copper indium gallium chalcogenides such as copper indium gallium selenides (CuIni -x Ga x Se 2 ) (CIGS) ; and copper indium
- group IV compound semiconductors e.g. gallium arsenide
- group II- VI semiconductors e.g. cadmium selenide
- group I- VII semiconductors e.g. cuprous chloride
- group IV- VI semiconductors e.g. lead selenide
- group V-VI semiconductors e.g. bismuth telluride
- semiconductors e.g. cadmium arsenide
- the band gap of the semiconductor can be estimated by constructing a photovoltaic diode or solar cell from the semiconductor and determining the photovoltaic action spectrum.
- the monochromatic photon energy at which the photocurrent starts to be generated by the diode can be taken as the band gap of the semiconductor; such a method was used by Barkhouse et al, Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2012; 20:6-11.
- References herein to the band gap of the semiconductor mean the band gap as measured by this method, i.e. the band gap as determined by recording the photovoltaic action spectrum of a photovoltaic diode or solar cell constructed from the semiconductor and observing the monochromatic photon energy at which significant photocurrent starts to be generated.
- the band gap of the semiconductor is less than or equal to 2.5 eV.
- the band gap may for instance be less than or equal to 2.3 eV, or for instance less than or equal to 2.0 eV.
- the band gap is at least 0.5 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor is close to 0, so that the
- the band gap of the semiconductor may be from 0.5 eV to 3.0 eV, or for instance from 0.5 eV to2.8 eV. In some embodiments it is from 0.5 eV to 2.5 eV, or for example from 0.5 eV to 2.3 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor may for instance be from 0.5 eV to 2.0 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor may be from 1.0 eV to 3.0 eV, or for instance from 1.0 eV to2.8 eV. In some embodiments it is from 1.0 eV to 2.5 eV, or for example from 1.0 eV to 2.3 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor may for instance be from 1.0 eV to 2.0 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor can be from 1.2 eV to 1.8 eV.
- the band gaps of organometal halide perovskite semiconductors are typically in this range and may for instance, be about 1.5 eV or about 1.6 eV.
- the band gap of the semiconductor is from 1.3 eV to 1.7 eV.
- the semiconductor is in contact with the porous dielectric scaffold material, i.e. it is supported by the scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is typically disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, like a coating.
- this means that the semiconductor is usually coated on the inside surfaces of pores within the porous dielectric scaffold material, as well as on the outer surfaces of the scaffold material. This is shown schematically in Figure 1. If the semiconductor is in contact with the scaffold material within the pores of the scaffold material, the pores are usually not completely filled by the semiconductor. Rather, the semiconductor is typically present as a coating on the inside surface of the pores.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor may be disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor may be disposed on the surfaces of some or all pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
- the dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium, or mixtures thereof, for instance, the dielectric scaffold material may comprise an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate. More typically, the dielectric scaffold material comprises porous alumina.
- the dielectric scaffold material is mesoporous.
- pores in the porous structure are microscopic and have a size which is usefully measured in nanometres (nm).
- the mean pore size of the pores within a “mesoporous” structure may for instance be anywhere in the range of from 1 nm to 100 nm, or for instance from 2 nm to 50 nm. Individual pores may be different sizes and may be any shape.
- the dielectric scaffold material comprises mesoporous alumina.
- the porosity of said dielectric scaffold material is usually at least 50%.
- the porosity may be about 70%.
- the porosity is at least 60%, for instance at least 70%.
- a porous material is material within which pores are arranged.
- the total volume of the porous material is the volume of the material plus the volume of the pores.
- the term "porosity”, as used herein, is the percentage of the total volume of the material that is occupied by the pores. Thus if, for example, the total volume of the porous material was 100 nm 3 and the volume of the pores was 70 nm 3 , the porosity of the material would be equal to 70%.
- the dielectric scaffold material is mesoporous.
- the semiconductor used in the present invention is also a photosensitizing material, i.e. a material which is capable of performing both photogeneration and charge (electron) transportation.
- the semiconductor may comprise a copper zinc tin chalcogenide, for example, a copper zinc tin sulphide such a Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) and copper zinc tin sulphur-selenides such as Cu 2 ZnSn(Si -x Se x )4 (CZTSSe).
- a copper zinc tin chalcogenide for example, a copper zinc tin sulphide such a Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 (CZTS) and copper zinc tin sulphur-selenides such as Cu 2 ZnSn(Si -x Se x )4 (CZTSSe).
- the semiconductor may comprise an antimony or bismuth chalcogenide, such as, for example, Sb 2 S3, Sb 2 Se3, Bi 2 S 3 or Bi 2 Se 3 .
- the semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
- the semiconductor may alternatively be gallium arsenide.
- the semiconductor comprises a perovskite as herein defined.
- the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
- semiconductor comprises a perovskite, Sb 2 S 3 , Sb 2 Se 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , Bi 2 Se 3 , CIS, CIGS, CZTS, CZTSSe, FeS 2 , CdS, CdSe, PbS, PbSe, Ge or GaAs, preferably wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, CZTS, CZTSSe, gallium arsenide, an antimony chalcogenide, or a bismuth chalcogenide.
- the semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
- the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor.
- the p-type semiconductor comprises a perovskite or a chalcogenide.
- the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor.
- the intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite or gallium aresenide.
- the semiconductor comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, Sb 2 S 3 , Sb 2 Se 3 , Bi 2 S 3 , Bi 2 Se 3 , CIS, CIGS, CZTS, CZTSSe, FeS 2 , CdS, CdSe, PbS, PbSe, Ge or GaAs, preferably wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, CZTS, CZTSSe, gallium arsenide, an antimony chalcogenide, or a bismuth chalcogenide.
- the semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
- the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 2.5 eV, optionally less than or equal to 2.0 eV.
- the band gap is at least 0.5 eV.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention In some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, the
- semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
- perovskite refers to a material with a three-dimensional crystal structure related to that of CaTi0 3 or a material comprising a layer of material, wherein the layer has a structure related to that of CaTi0 3 .
- the structure of CaTi0 3 can be represented by the formula ABX 3 , wherein A and B are cations of different sizes and X is an anion. In the unit cell, the A cations are at (0,0,0), the B cations are at (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) and the X anions are at (1/2, 1/2, 0). The A cation is usually larger than the B cation.
- the different ion sizes may cause the structure of the perovskite material to distort away from the structure adopted by CaTi0 3 to a lower-symmetry distorted structure.
- the symmetry will also be lower if the material comprises a layer that has a structure related to that of CaTi0 3 .
- Materials comprising a layer of perovskite material are well known.
- the structure of materials adopting the K 2 NiF 4 -type structure comprises a layer of perovskite material.
- a perovskite material can be represented by the formula [A][B][X] 3 , wherein [A] is at least one cation, [B] is at least one cation and [X] is at least one anion.
- the different A cations may distributed over the A sites in an ordered or disordered way.
- the perovskite comprise more than one B cation the different B cations may distributed over the B sites in an ordered or disordered way.
- the perovskite comprise more than one X anion the different X anions may distributed over the X sites in an ordered or disordered way.
- the symmetry of a perovskite comprising more than one A cation, more than one B cation or more than one X cation will be lower than that of CaTi0 3 .
- the perovskite may be a perovskite which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped. Alternatively, it may be a perovskite which acts as a p-type hole-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped. Thus, the perovksite may be n-type or p-type, or it may be an intrinsic semiconductor. Typically, the perovskite employed is one which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention usually further comprises a charge transporting material disposed within pores of said porous material.
- the charge transporting material may be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material.
- the charge transporting material can be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material.
- the charge transporting material is typically a hole transporting material.
- the charge transporting material is typically an electron transporting material.
- the perovskite comprises at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- halide refers to an anion of a group 7 element, i.e., of a halogen.
- halide refers to a fluoride anion, a chloride anion, a bromide anion, an iodide anion or an astatide anion.
- chalcogenide anion refers to an anion of group 6 element, i.e. of a chalcogen.
- chalcogenide refers to an oxide anion, a sulphide anion, a selenide anion or a telluride anion.
- the perovskite often comprises a first cation, a second cation, and said at least one anion.
- the perovskite may comprise further cations or further anions.
- the perovskite may comprise two, three or four different first cations; two, three or four different second cations; or two, three of four different anions.
- the second cation in the perovskite is a metal cation. More typically, the second cation is a divalent metal cation.
- the second cation may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the second cation is selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ .
- the first cation in the perovskite is usually an organic cation.
- organic cation refers to a cation comprising carbon.
- the cation may comprise further elements, for example, the cation may comprise hydrogen, nitrogen or oxygen.
- the organic cation has the formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + , wherein:
- Ri is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C 1 -C 2 0 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R 2 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C 1 -C 2 0 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R3 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R4 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl.
- an alkyl group can be a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched chain saturated radical, it is often a substituted or an unsubstituted linear chain saturated radical, more often an unsubstituted linear chain saturated radical.
- a C1-C20 alkyl group is an unsubstituted or substituted, straight or branched chain saturated hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
- C1-C10 alkyl for example methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl or decyl
- Ci-C 6 alkyl for example methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl or hexyl
- C1-C4 alkyl for example methyl, ethyl, i- propyl, n-propyl, t-butyl, s-butyl or n-butyl.
- alkyl group When an alkyl group is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl (as defined herein), cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci-Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, hydroxy, oxo, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfonic acid, sulfhydryl (i.e.
- substituted alkyl groups include haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl and alkaryl groups.
- alkaryl as used herein, pertains to a C1-C20 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom has been replaced with an aryl group.
- a substituted alkyl group carries 1, 2 or 3 substituents, for instance 1 or 2.
- An aryl group is a substituted or unsubstituted, monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic group which typically contains from 6 to 14 carbon atoms, preferably from 6 to 10 carbon atoms in the ring portion. Examples include phenyl, naphthyl, indenyl and indanyl groups. An aryl group is unsubstituted or substituted.
- aryl group as defined above When an aryl group as defined above is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from Ci-C 6 alkyl which is unsubstituted (to form an aralkyl group), aryl which is unsubstituted, cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci- Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, hydroxy, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfhydryl (i.e.
- a substituted aryl group may be substituted in two positions with a single Ci-C 6 alkylene group, or with a bidentate group represented by the formula -X-(Ci-C 6 )alkylene, or -X-(Ci-C 6 )alkylene-X-, wherein X is selected from O, S and NR, and wherein R is H, aryl or Ci-C 6 alkyl.
- a substituted aryl group may be an aryl group fused with a cycloalkyl group or with a heterocyclyl group.
- the ring atoms of an aryl group may include one or more heteroatoms (as in a heteroaryl group).
- Such an aryl group (a heteroaryl group) is a substituted or
- unsubstituted mono- or bicyclic heteroaromatic group which typically contains from 6 to 10 atoms in the ring portion including one or more heteroatoms. It is generally a 5- or 6- membered ring, containing at least one heteroatom selected from O, S, N, P, Se and Si. It may contain, for example, 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms.
- heteroaryl groups include pyridyl, pyrazinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyridazinyl, furanyl, thienyl, pyrazolidinyl, pyrrolyl, oxazolyl, oxadiazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiadiazolyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, imidazolyl, pyrazolyl, quinolyl and isoquinolyl.
- a heteroaryl group may be unsubstituted or substituted, for instance, as specified above for aryl. Typically it carries 0, 1, 2 or 3 substituents.
- Ri in the organic cation is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R t is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl.
- Ri may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 2 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 3 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R t may be hydrogen or methyl.
- the organic cation may have the formula (R 5 NH 3 ) + , wherein: R 5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl.
- R 5 may be methyl or ethyl.
- R 5 is methyl.
- the organic cation has the formula
- R 5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl
- R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl
- R 7 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl
- R 8 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or
- R 5 in the organic cation is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R5 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 7 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 8 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl.
- R 5 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R5 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 7 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 8 may be hydrogen or methyl.
- the perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the mixed-anion perovskite may comprise two different anions and, for instance, the anions may be a halide anion and a chalcogenide anion, two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions.
- the first and second cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the first cation may be an organic cation, which may be as further defined herein.
- the second cation may be a divalent metal cation.
- the second cation may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the second cation is selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ .
- the perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the mixed-anion perovskite may comprise two different anions and, for instance, the anions may be a halide anion and a chalcogenide anion, two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions.
- the first and second cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the first cation may be an organic cation, which may be as further defined herein. For instance it may be a cation of formula
- the second cation may be a divalent metal cation.
- the second cation may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the second cation is selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ .
- the perovskite is usually a mixed-halide perovskite, wherein said two or more different anions are two or more different halide anions. Typically, they are two or three halide anions, more typically, two different halide anions.
- the halide anions are selected from fluoride, chloride, bromide and iodide, for instance chloride, bromide and iodide.
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (I):
- [B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may comprise one, two, three or four different metal cations, typically one or two different metal cations.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different organic cations, typically one or two different organic cations.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise one two, three or four different anions, typically two or three different anions.
- the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + and cations of formula (R 5 H 3 ) , as defined above.
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the organic cation may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- [X] in formula (I) is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (IA):
- A is an organic cation
- B is a metal cation
- [X] is at least one anion
- [X] in formula (IA) is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- [X] is two or three different halide anions. More preferably, [X] is two different halide anions. In another embodiment [X] is three different halide anions.
- the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the organic cation may be selected from cations of formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + and cations of formula (R 5 H 3 ) + , as defined above.
- the metal cation may be a divalent metal cation.
- the metal cation may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the organic cation may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
- the metal cation may be a divalent metal cation.
- the metal cation may be selected from
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (II):
- A is an organic cation
- B is a metal cation
- X is a first halide anion
- X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and y is from 0.05 to 2.95.
- y is from 0.5 to 2.5, for instance from 0.75 to 2.25. Typically, y is from 1 to
- the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the organic cation may be a cation of formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + or, more typically, a cation of formula (R 5 H 3 ) , as defined above.
- the metal cation may be a divalent metal cation.
- the metal cation may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (Ha): wherein:
- B is a metal cation
- X is a first halide anion
- X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and z is greater than 0 and less than 1. Usually, z is from 0.05 to 0.95.
- z is from 0.1 to 0.9.
- z may, for instance, be 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 or 0.9, or z may be a range of from any one of these values, to any other of these values (for instance from 0.2 to 0.7, or from 0.1 to 0.8).
- X is a halide anion and X' is a chalcogenide anion, or X and X' are two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions.
- X and X' are two different halide anions.
- one of said two or more different halide anions may be iodide and another of said two or more different halide anions may be bromide.
- B is a divalent metal cation.
- B may be a divalent metal cation, selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- B is a divalent metal cation selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ .
- B may be Pb 2+ .
- the perovskites are selected from CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbCl 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbF 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 ,
- the perovskites may be selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbI 2 Cl, CH 3 H 3 SnBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, CH 3 H 3 SnIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I, CH 3 H 3 SnClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnI 2 Cl and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Cl.
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 ,
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 ,
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I.
- the perovskite may be a perovskite of formula
- z is greater than 0 or less than 1. z may be as further defined herein.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention may comprise said perovskite and a single- anion perovskite, wherein said single anion perovskite comprises a first cation, a second cation and an anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions; wherein the first and second cations are as herein defined for said mixed-anion perovskite.
- the optoelectronic device may comprise: CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 ; CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 ; CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 ; or CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 .
- the optoelectronic device may comprise a perovskite of formula
- the optoelectronic device of the invention may comprise more than one perovskite, wherein each perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite, and wherein said mixed- anion perovskite is as herein defined.
- the optoelectronic device may comprise two or three said perovskites.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention may, for instance, comprise two perovskites wherein both perovskites are mixed-anion perovskites.
- the optoelectronic device may comprise: CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 ;
- the optoelectronic device may comprise two different perovskites, wherein each perovskite is a perovskite of formula wherein z is as defined herein.
- one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide or fluoride; and when [B] is a single metal cation which is Sn 2+ one of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride.
- one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide or fluoride.
- one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide and another of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride or chloride.
- one of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride.
- [X] is two different halide anions X and X' .
- said divalent metal cation is Sn 2+ .
- said divalent metal cation may be Pb 2+ .
- the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor.
- the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention further comprises a charge transporting material.
- the charge transporting material may, for instance, be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material.
- the hole transporting material in the optoelectronic device of the invention may be any suitable p-type or hole-transporting, semiconducting material.
- the hole transporting material is a small molecular or polymer-based hole conductor.
- the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material
- the charge transporting material is a solid state hole transporting material or a liquid electrolyte.
- the charge transporting material is a polymeric or molecular hole transporter.
- the charge transporting material comprises spiro-OMeTAD (2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p- methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene)), P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene)), PCPDTBT (Poly[2, l,3-benzothiadiazole-4,7-diyl[4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2, l-b:3,4- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]]), PVK (poly(N-vinylcarbazole)), HTM-TFSI (l-hexyl-3- methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)in
- the charge transporting material is selected from spiro-OMeTAD, P3HT, PCPDTBT and PVK.
- the hole transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD.
- the charge transporting material when the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the charge transporting material may be a molecular hole transporter, or a polymer or copolymers.
- the charge transporting material is a molecular hole transporting material
- a polymer or copolymer comprises one or more of the following moieties: thiophenyl, phenelenyl, dithiazolyl, benzothiazolyl, diketopyrrolopyrrolyl, ethoxydithiophenyl, amino, triphenyl amino, carbozolyl, ethylene dioxythiophenyl, dioxy thiophenyl, or fluorenyl.
- the charge transporting material may be an inorganic hole transporter, for instance, the charge transporting material may be Cul, CuBr, CuSCN, Cu 2 0, CuO or CIS.
- the charge transporting material when the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material, the charge transporting material often comprises a fullerene or perylene, or derivatives thereof, or P( DI20D-T2).
- the charge transporting material may be P( DI20D-T2).
- the charge transporting material comprises a perovskite.
- the hole transporting material may comprise a perovskite.
- the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material
- the electron transporting material may comprise a perovskite
- said semiconductor comprises a first perovskite, wherein the first perovskite is as defined hereinabove, and said charge transporting material comprises a second perovskite, wherein the first and second perovskites are the same or different.
- the semiconductor must have a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV.
- the second perovskite is not necessarily a perovskite that has a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV.
- the second perovskite may have a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV or, in some embodiments, the second perovskite may have a band gap of greater than 3.0 eV.
- the first perovskite is an n-type material and the second perovskite is a p-type material
- the first perovskite is a p-type material and the second perovskite is an n-type material.
- a doping agent to a perovskite may be used to control the charge transfer properties of that perovskite.
- a perovskite that is an instrinic material may be doped to form an n-type or a p-type material.
- the first perovskite and/or the second perovskite may comprise one or more doping agent.
- the doping agent is a dopant element.
- the addition of different doping agents to different samples of the same material may result in the different samples having different charge transfer properties. For instance, the addition of one doping agent to a first sample of perovskite material may result in the first sample becoming an n-type material, whilst the addition of a different doping agent to a second sample of the same perovskite material may result in the second sample becoming a p-type material.
- the first and second perovskites may be the same.
- the first and second perovskites may be different.
- at least one of the first and second perovskites may comprise a doping agent.
- the first perovskite may for instance comprise a doping agent that is not present in the second perovsite.
- the second perovskite may for instance comprise a doping agent that is not present in the first perovskite.
- the difference between the first and second perovskites may be the presence or absence of a doping agent, or it may be the use of a different doping agent in each perovskite.
- first and second perovskites may comprise the same doping agent.
- the difference between the first and second perovskites may not lie in the doping agent but instead the difference may lie in the overall structure of the first and second perovskites.
- the first and second perovskites may be different perovskite compounds.
- the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and at least one anion.
- the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite compound of formula (IB):
- [A] is at least one organic cation or at least one group 1 metal cation
- [B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
- [A] may comprise Cs + .
- [B] comprises Pb 2+ or Sn 2+ . More typically, [B] comprises Pb 2+ .
- [X] comprises a halide anion or a plurality of different halide anions. Usually, [X] comprises ⁇ .
- [X] is two or more different anions, for instance, two or more different halide anions.
- [X] may comprise ⁇ and F “ , ⁇ and Br “ or ⁇ and CI “ .
- the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbI 3 or CsSnI 3 .
- the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI 3 .
- the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI 2 Cl, CsPbICl 2 , CsPbI 2 F, CsPbIF 2 , CsPbI 2 Br, CsPbIBr 2 , CsSnI 2 Cl, CsSnICl 2 , CsSnI 2 F, CsSnIF 2 , CsSnI 2 Br or CsSnIBr 2 .
- the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI 2 Cl or CsPbICl 2 .
- the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbICl 2 .
- [X] may be one, two or more different anions as defined herein, for instance, one, two or more different anions as defined herein for the first perovskite;
- [A] usually comprises an organic cation as defined herein, as above for the first perovskite; and
- [B] typically comprises a metal cation as defined herein.
- the metal cation may be defined as hereinbefore for the first perovskite.
- the perovskite of the charge transporting material may be a perovskite as defined for the first perovskite hereinabove.
- the second perovskite may be the same as or different from the first perovskite, typically it is different.
- the charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the layer usually further comprises said charge transporting material, within pores of the porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; said semiconductor; and said charge transporting material.
- photoactive layer refers to a layer in the optoelectronic device which comprises a material that (i) absorbs light, which may then generate free charge carriers; or (ii) accepts charge, both electrons and holes, which may subsequently recombine and emit light.
- the energy of the photon is used to promote an electron to a higher energy state in the absorber.
- the photon energy is converted into electrical potential energy.
- the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor as defined herein and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein.
- the semiconductor in the photoactive layer, may be a p-type
- the charge transporting material may be an electron transporting material as defined herein.
- the semiconductor in the photoactive layer, may be an intrinsic semiconductor as defined herein and the charge transport material is a hole transport material as defined herein or an electron transport material as defined herein.
- the semiconductor in the photoactive layer, is a perovskite as defined herein.
- the photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said charge transporting material disposed on a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein the device further comprises said charge transporting material disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 100 nm to 3000 nm. Usually, the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 100 nm to 1000 nm
- the term “thickness” refers to the average thickness of a component of an optoelectronic device.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: said photoactive layer.
- the first and second electrodes are an anode and a cathode, and usually one or both of the anode and cathode is transparent to allow the ingress of light.
- the choice of the first and second electrodes of the optoelectronic devices of the present invention may depend on the structure type.
- the n-type layer is deposited onto a tin oxide, more typically onto a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) anode, which is usually a transparent or semi-transparent material.
- FTO fluorine-doped tin oxide
- the first electrode is usually transparent or semi-transparent and typically comprises FTO.
- the thickness of the first electrode is from 200 nm to 600 nm, more usually, from 300 to 500 nm. For instance the thickness may be 400 nm.
- the second electrode comprises a high work function metal, for instance gold, silver, nickel, palladium or platinum, and typically silver.
- the thickness of the second electrode is from 50 nm to 250 nm, more usually from 100 nm to 200 nm. For instance, the thickness of the second electrode may be 150 nm.
- the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 200 nm to 1000 nm, for instance the thickness may be from 400 nm to 800 nm. Often, thickness of the photoactive layer is from 400 nm to 600 nm. Usually the thickness is about 500 nm.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes:
- an n-type compact layer when the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor (for instance an n-type perovskite, or a perovskite which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting material when photo-doped) an n-type compact layer should also be used.
- the semiconductor when the semiconductor is p-type, the compact layer should be p- type too. Examples of p-type semiconductors that can be used in the compact layer include oxides of nickel, vanadium, copper or molybdenum. Additionally, p-type organic hole- conductors may also be useful as p-type compact layers.
- Examples of such p-type hole- conductors are PEDO:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly-(styrenesulfonate)), and polyanilene.
- Examples of n-type semiconductors that can be used in the compact layer include oxides of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, neodymium, palladium and cadmium, or a mixture thereof, and sulphides of zinc or cadmium, or mixtures thereof.
- the semiconductor used in the compact layer will be different from said semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the semiconductor used in the compact layer may be the same as said semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the compact layer may, for instance, comprise said perovskite.
- the compact layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal sulphide.
- the compact layer comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, neodymium, palladium or cadmium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium.
- the compact layer comprises
- the compact layer has a thickness of from 20 nm to 200 nm, typically a thickness of about 100 nm.
- the compact layer may comprise a p-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of nickel, vanadium or copper.
- the compact layer may comprise a semiconductor comprising an oxide of molybdenum or tungsten.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention further comprises an additional layer, disposed between the compact layer and the photoactive layer, which additional layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide which is the same as or different from the metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide employed in the compact layer.
- the additional layer comprises alumina, magnesium oxide, cadmium sulphide, silicon dioxide, or yttrium oxide.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is selected from a photovoltaic device; a photodiode; a phototransistor; a photomultiplier; a photo resistor; a photo detector; a light-sensitive detector; solid-state triode; a battery electrode; a light-emitting device; a light-emitting diode; a transistor; a solar cell; a laser; and a diode injection laser.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is a solar cell.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is a light- emitting device, for instance a light-emitting diode.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer; wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising (i) said porous dielectric scaffold material and (ii) said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
- [A] is at least one organic cation
- [B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + and cations of formula (R 5 H 3 ) , as defined above.
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the organic cations may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- [X] may also be as further defined herein. Usually, [X] is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- porous dielectric scaffold material and the charge transporting material may also be as further defined herein.
- the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a compact layer comprising a metal oxide; and a photoactive layer; wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
- [A] is at least one organic cation
- [B] is at least one metal cation
- [X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore.
- the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + and cations of formula (R 5 H 3 ) + , as defined above.
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- the organic cations may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
- the metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations.
- the metal cations may be selected from Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Cd 2+ , Cu 2+ , Ni 2+ , Mn 2+ , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Yb 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ or Pb 2+ .
- [X] may also be as further defined herein. Usually, [X] is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- porous dielectric scaffold material and the hole transporting material may also be as further defined herein, as may be the metal oxide in the compact layer.
- the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein.
- the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor and the charge
- the fundamental losses in a solar cell can be quantified as the difference in energy between the open-circuit voltage and the band-gap of the absorber, which may be considered the loss in potential.
- the theoretical maximum open-circuit voltage can be estimated as a function of band gap following the Schokley-Quasar treatment, and for a material with a band gap of 1.55eV the maximum possible open-circuit voltage under full sun illumination is 1.3 V, giving a minimum loss-in-potential 0.25eV.
- x is less than or equal to 0.6 eV, wherein: x is equal to A-B, wherein:
- A is the optical band gap of said thin-film semiconductor
- B is the open-circuit voltage generated by the optoelectronic device under standard AM1.5G 100 mWcm "2 solar illumination.
- x is less than or equal to 0.45eV.
- the invention also provides the use of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; in an optoelectronic device.
- the use is of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which is in contact with the scaffold material, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
- the use is of: (i) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (ii) said semiconductor, in contact with the scaffold material; and (iii) a charge transporting material; as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
- the invention also provides the use of a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device.
- the layer further comprises a charge transporting material.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein; and/orthe semiconductor may be as further defined herein.
- the charge transporting material may also be as further defined herein.
- the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
- the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
- the semiconductor comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises an intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the charge transporting material where present, is typically disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein.
- the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material as defined herein.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate; and/or (b) the semiconductor is a perovskite.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material is as further defined herein; and/or (b) the semiconductor is as further defined herein.
- the optoelectronic device is a photovoltaic device.
- the optoelectronic device is a solar cell.
- the optoelectronic device may be a light- emitting device, for instance a light-emitting diode.
- the invention also provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising: (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the charge transporting material is typically disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite,
- the semiconductor may be a p- type semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite,
- the semiconductor may be an intrinsic semiconductor.
- the semiconductor comprises an intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite
- the semiconductor in the photoactive layer, comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV. Additionally or alternatively, in some embodiments, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate;
- the semiconductor is a perovskite; and/or
- the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein;
- the semiconductor may be as further defined herein; and/or (c) the charge transporting material may be as further defined herein.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate;
- the semiconductor is a perovskite; and/or
- the charge transporting material is an electron conductor.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein;
- the semiconductor is as further defined herein; and/or (c) the charge transporting material is as further defined herein.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material used in the devices of the invention can be produced by a process comprising: (i) washing a first dispersion of a dielectric material; and (ii) mixing the washed dispersion with a solution comprising a pore-forming agent which is a combustible or dissolvable organic compound.
- the pore-forming agent is removed later in the process by burning the agent off or by selectively dissolving it using an appropriate solvent. Any suitable pore-forming agent may be used.
- the pore-forming agent may be a carbohydrate, for instance a polysaccharide, or a derivative thereof. Typically, ethyl cellulose is used as the pore-forming agent.
- carbohydrate refers to an organic compound consisting of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen.
- the hydrogen to oxygen atom ratio is usually 2: 1. It is to be understood that the term carbohydrate encompasses monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.
- Carbohydrate derivatives are typically carbohydrates comprising additional substituents. Usually the substituents are other than hydroxyl groups.
- an carbohydrate When an carbohydrate is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci-Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, oxo, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfonic acid, sulfhydryl (i.e.
- alkyl groups include haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl and alkaryl groups.
- alkaryl as used herein, pertains to a C1-C20 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom has been replaced with an aryl group.
- the substituent on the carbohydrate may, for instance, be a Ci-C 6 alkyl, wherein a Ci-C 6 alkyl is as defined herein above. Often the substituents are subsituents on the hydroxyl group of the carbohydrate.
- the pore- forming agent used in the step of mixing the dispersion with a solution is a carbohydrate or a derivative thereof, more typically a carbohydrate derivative.
- the carbohydrate or a derivative thereof is ethyl cellulose.
- the first dispersion used in the process for producing the porous dielectric scaffold material is a solution comprising an electrolyte and water.
- the first dispersion is about 10 wt% of the electrolyte in water.
- the process further comprises a step of forming the electrolyte from a precursor material.
- the process may further comprises a step of forming the electrolyte from a silicate, such as tetraethyl orthosilicate.
- the precursor material is added to water.
- the first dispersion is produced by mixing an alcohol, such as ethanol, with water, then adding a base, such as ammonium hydroxide, in water and the precursor material.
- a base such as ammonium hydroxide
- the dielectric is silica
- about 2.52 ml of deionized water are added to about 59.2 ml of absolute ethanol.
- the first dispersion of a dielectric material often the first dispersion is centrifuged at from 6500 to 8500 rpm, usually at about 7500 rpm. Usually, the first dispersion is centrifuged for from 2 to 10 hours, typically for about 6 hours. The centrifuged dispersion is then usually redispersed in an alcohol, such as absolute ethanol.
- the centrifuged dispersion is redispersed in an alcohol with an ultrasonic probe.
- the ultrasonic probe is usually operated for a total sonication time of from 3 minutes to 7 minutes, often about 5 minutes.
- the sonication is carried out in cycles.
- sonication is carried out in cycles of approximately 2 seconds on and approximately 2 seconds off.
- the step of washing the first dispersion is often repeated two, three or four times, typically three times.
- the solution comprises a solvent for the carbohydrate or a derivative thereof.
- the solvent may be a-terpineol.
- the amount of the product from the step of washing the first dispersion used in the step of mixing the washed dispersion with the solution is equivalent to using from 0.5 to 1.5 g of the dielectric, for instance, about 1 g of the dielectric.
- the carbohydrate or derivative thereof is ethyl cellulose
- a mix of different grades of ethyl cellulose are used.
- a ratio of approximately 50:50 of 10 cP:46 cP of ethyl cellulose is used.
- from 4 to 6 g of the carbohydrate or derivative is used. More usually, about 5 g of the carbohydrate or derivative is used.
- the amount of solvent used is from 3 to 3.5 g, for instance 3.33 g.
- each component is added in turn.
- the mixture is stirred for from 1 to 3 minutes, for instance, for 2 minutes.
- it is sonicated with an ultrasonic probe for a total sonication time of from 30 to 90 seconds, often about 1 minute.
- the sonication is carried out in cycles.
- sonication is carried out in cycles of approximately 2 seconds on and approximately 2 seconds off.
- the resulting mixture is introduced into a rotary evaporator.
- the rotary evaporator is typically used to remove any excess alcohol, such as ethanol, and/or to achieve a thickness of solution appropriate for spin coating, doctor blading or screen printing the material.
- the perovskite used in the devices of the invention can be produced by a process comprising mixing:
- a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second cations are as defined herein; and the first and second anions may be the same or different anions.
- the perovskites which comprise at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions may, for instance, be produced by a process comprising mixing:
- a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the first and second anions may be the same or different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. Typically, the first and second anions are different anions. More typically, the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions.
- the perovskite produced by the process may comprise further cations or further anions.
- the perovskite may comprise two, three or four different cations, or two, three of four different anions.
- the process for producing the perovskite may therefore comprise mixing further compounds comprising a further cation or a further anion.
- the process for producing the perovskite may comprise mixing (a) and (b) with: (c) a third compound comprising (i) the first cation and (ii) the second anion; or (d) a fourth compound comprising (i) the second cation and (ii) the first anion.
- the second cation in the mixed- anion perovskite is a metal cation. More typically, the second cation is a divalent metal 2 I cation.
- the first cation may be selected from Ca , Sr , Cd , Cu , Ni , Mn , Fe 2+ , Co 2+ , Pd 2+ , Ge 2+ , Sn 2+ , Pb 2+ , Sn 2+ , Y 2+ and Eu 2+ .
- the second cation is selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ .
- the first cation in the mixed-anion perovskite is an organic cation.
- the organic cation has the formula (RiR 2 R 3 R 4 N) + , wherein:
- Ri is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C 1 -C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R 2 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C 1 -C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R3 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
- R4 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl.
- Ri is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl
- R 4 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl.
- Ri may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 2 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 3 may be hydrogen or methyl
- R 4 may be hydrogen or methyl.
- the organic cation may have the formula (R 5 H 3 ) + , wherein: R 5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C 20 alkyl.
- R 5 may be methyl or ethyl.
- R 5 is methyl.
- the perovskite is usually a mixed-halide perovskite, wherein said two or more different anions are two or more different halide anions.
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (I):
- [A] is at least one organic cation
- [B] is at least one metal cation
- [X] is said two or more different anions; and the process comprises mixing:
- a second compound comprising (i) an organic cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions or chalcogenide anions.
- the process may comprising (1) treating: (a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a first anion; with (b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a first anion, to produce a first product, wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the first anion is selected from halide anions and
- chalcogenide anions and (2) treating (a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a second anion; with (b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion, to produce a second product, wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the second anion is selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
- the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions.
- the process usually further comprises treating a first amount of the first product with a second amount of the second product, wherein the first and second amounts may be the same or different.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different metal cations, typically one or two different metal cations.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different organic cations, typically one or two different organic cations.
- the perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise two, three or four different anions, typically two or three different anions.
- the process may, therefore, comprising mixing further compounds comprising a cation and an anion.
- [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- the first and second anions are thus typically halide anions.
- [X] may be three different halide ions.
- the process may comprise mixing a third compound with the first and second compound, wherein the third compound comprises (i) a cation and (ii) a third halide anion, where the third anion is a different halide anion from the first and second halide anions.
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (IA):
- A is an organic cation
- [X] is said two or more different anions, the process comprises mixing:
- [X] is two or more different halide anions.
- [X] is two or three different halide anions. More preferably, [X] is two different halide anions. In another embodiment [X] is three different halide anions.
- the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (II):
- A is an organic cation
- B is a metal cation
- X is a first halide anion
- X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and y is from 0.05 to 2.95; and the process comprises mixing:
- the process may comprise mixing a further compound with the first and second compounds.
- the process may comprise mixing a third compound with the first and second compounds, wherein the third compound comprises (i) the metal cation and (ii) X' .
- the process may comprising mixing a third compound with the first and second compounds, wherein the third compound comprises (i) the organic cation and (ii) X.
- y is from 0.5 to 2.5, for instance from 0.75 to 2.25. Typically, y is from 1 to
- the first compound is BX 2 and the second compound is AX'.
- the second compound is produce by reacting a compound of the formula (R 5 H 2 ), wherein: R 5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, with a compound of formula HX'.
- R 5 may be methyl or ethyl, often R 5 is methyl.
- the compound of formula (R 5 H 2 ) and the compound of formula HX' are reacted in a 1 : 1 molar ratio. Often, the reaction takes place under nitrogen atmosphere and usually in anhydrous ethanol. Typically, the anhydrous ethanol is about 200 proof. More typically from 15 to 30 ml of the compound of formula (R 5 H 2 ) is reacted with about 15 to 15 ml of HX', usually under nitrogen atmosphere in from 50 to 150 ml anhydrous ethanol.
- the process may also comprise a step of recovering said mixed-anion perovskite. A rotary evaporator is often used to extract crystalline AX'.
- the step of mixing the first and second compounds is a step of dissolving the first and second compounds in a solvent.
- the first and second compounds may be dissolved in a ratio of from 1 :20 to 20: 1, typically a ratio of 1 : 1.
- the solvent is
- dimethylformamide or water.
- the solvent is usually dimethylformamide.
- the metal cation is Sn 2+ the solvent is usually water.
- the use of DMF or water as the solvent is advantageous as these solvents are not very volatile.
- the perovskite is a perovskite selected from CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbCl 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbF 3 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbI 2 Cl, CH 3 H 3 SnBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, CH 3 H 3 SnIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I, CH 3 H 3 SnClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnI 2 Cl and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Cl.
- the perovskite is a perovskite selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbI 2 Cl, CH 3 H 3 SnBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, CH 3 H 3 SnIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I, CH 3 H 3 SnClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnI 2 Cl and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Cl.
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbI 2 Cl, CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, CH 3 H 3 SnICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I, CH 3 H 3 SnI 2 Cl and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Cl. More typically, the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 ,
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbClBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbI 2 Cl, CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Cl.
- the perovskite is selected from CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 , CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 , CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 Br, and CH 3 H 3 SnF 2 I.
- the perovskite in the process for producing the mixed-anion perovskite, is a perovskite compound of formula (Ila):
- B is an metal cation selected from Sn 2+ and Pb 2+ ;
- X is a first halide anion
- X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and z is greater than 0 and less than 1; and the process comprises
- z is from 0.05 to 0.95.
- the perovskite may, for instance, have the formula wherein z is as defined hereinabove.
- Other semiconductors used in the devices of the invention may be prepared using known synthetic techniques.
- the photoactive layer of the invention may further comprise encapsulated metal
- the process for producing an optoelectronic device is usually a process for producing a device selected from: a photovoltaic device; a photodiode; a phototransistor; a
- the optoelectronic device is a photovoltaic device.
- the optoelectronic device may be a light-emitting device.
- the process for producing an optoelectronic device of the invention wherein the optoelectronic device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer, which photoactive layer comprises a porous dielectric scaffold material and a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; is usually a process comprising:
- an optoelectronic device which comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is a hole transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor, which semiconductor is a perovskite, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and (b) a compact layer comprising an n-type semiconductor.
- optoelectronic devices of the invention which comprise: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an electron transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor, which semiconductor is a perovskite; and (b) a compact layer comprising an-type semiconductor.
- a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which semiconductor is any suitable n-type
- any suitable p-type semiconductor or any suitable intrinsic semiconductor or, for instance, optoelectronic devices comprising a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an hole transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which semiconductor is any suitable n-type semiconductor; and (b) a compact layer comprising an n-type semiconductor, or, for instance, optoelectronic devices comprising a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an electron transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV,
- semiconductor is any suitable p-type semiconductor; and (b) a compact layer comprising a p- type semiconductor.
- the process for producing an optoelectronic device of the invention wherein the optoelectronic device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes:
- a compact layer comprising a metal oxide is usually a process comprising:
- the first and second electrodes are an anode and a cathode, one or both of which is transparent to allow the ingress of light.
- the choice of the first and second electrodes of the optoelectronic devices of the present invention may depend on the structure type.
- the n-type layer is deposited onto a tin oxide, more typically onto a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) anode, which is usually a transparent or semi-transparent material.
- FTO fluorine-doped tin oxide
- the first electrode is usually transparent or semi-transparent and typically comprises FTO.
- the thickness of the first electrode is from 200 nm to 600 nm, more usually, from 300 to 500 nm. For example the thickness may be 400 nm.
- FTO is coated onto a glass sheet.
- the TFO coated glass sheets are etched with zinc powder and an acid to produce the required electrode pattern.
- the acid is HCl.
- concentration of the HCl is about 2 molar.
- the sheets are cleaned and then usually treated under oxygen plasma to remove any organic residues.
- the treatment under oxygen plasma is for less than or equal to 1 hour, typically about 5 minutes.
- the second electrode comprises a high work function metal, for instance gold, silver, nickel, palladium or platinum, and typically silver.
- the thickness of the second electrode is from 50 nm to 250 nm, more usually from 100 nm to 200 nm.
- the thickness of the second electrode may be 150 nm.
- the compact layer of an semiconductor comprises an oxide of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium, palladium or cadmium, or mixtures thereof, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium.
- the compact layer of a semiconductor comprises Ti0 2 .
- the compact layer is deposited on the first electrode. The process for producing the photovoltaic device thus usually comprise a step of depositing a compact layer of an n-type semiconductor.
- the step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor may, for instance, comprise depositing the compact layer of a semiconductor by aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition.
- the aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition comprises deposition of a solution comprising titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate), usually at a temperature of from 200 to 300°C, often at a temperature of about 250°C.
- the solution comprises titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) and ethanol, typically in a ratio of from 1 :5 to 1 :20, more typically in a ratio of about 1 : 10.
- the step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor is a step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor of thickness from 50 nm to 200 nm, typically a thickness of about 100 nm.
- the photoactive layer usually comprises: (a) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) said semiconductor; and (c) said charge transporting material.
- the step of depositing the photoactive layer comprises: (i) depositing the porous dielectric scaffold material; (ii) depositing the semiconductor; and (iii) depositing the charge transporting material. More typically, step of depositing the photoactive layer comprises: (i) depositing the porous dielectric scaffold material; then (ii) depositing the semiconductor; and then (iii) depositing the charge transporting material.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material is deposited on to the compact layer.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material is deposited on to the compact layer using a method selected from screen printing, doctor blade coating and spin-coating.
- the method of screen printing usually requires the deposition to occur through a suitable mesh;
- doctor blade coating if doctor blade coating is used, a suitable doctor blade height is usually required;
- spin-coating when spin-coating is used, a suitable spin speed is needed.
- the porous dielectric scaffold material is often deposited with an thickness of between 100 to lOOOnm, typically 200 to 500nm, and more typically about 300 nm.
- the material is usually heated to from 400 to 500 °C, typically to about 450 °C. Often, the material is held at this temperature for from 15 to 45 minutes, usually for about 30 minutes.
- This dwelling step is usually used in order to degrade and remove material from within the pores of the scaffold material. For instance, the dwelling step may be used to remove cellulose from the pores.
- said perovskite is a perovskite as described herein.
- the step of depositing the perovskite usually comprises depositing the perovskite on the porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the step of depositing the perovskite comprises spin coating said perovskite.
- the spin coating usually occurs in air, typically at a speed of from 1000 to 2000 rpm, more typically at a speed of about 1500 rpm and/or often for a period of from 15 to 60 seconds, usually for about 30 seconds.
- the perovskite is usually placed in a solvent prior to the spin coating.
- the solvent is DMF (dimethylformamide) and typically the volume of solution used id from 1 to 200 ⁇ , more typically from 20 to 100 ⁇ .
- the concentration of the solution is often of from 1 to 50 vol% perovskite, usually from 5 to 40 vol%.
- the solution may be, for instance, dispensed onto the porous dielectric scaffold material prior to said spin coating and left for a period of about 5 to 50 second, typically for about 20 seconds.
- the perovskite is typically placed at a temperature of from 75 to 125°C, more typically a temperature of about 100°C.
- the perovskite is then usually left at this temperature for a period of at least 30 minutes, more usually a period of from 30 to 60 minutes.
- the perovskite is left at this temperature for a period of about 45 minutes.
- the perovskite will change colour, for example from light yellow to dark brown. The colour change may be used to indicate the formation of the perovskite layer.
- at least some of the perovskite, once deposited, will be in the pores of the porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the perovskite does not decompose when exposed to oxygen or moisture for a period of time equal to or greater than 10 minutes. Typically, the perovskite does not decompose when exposed to oxygen or moisture for a period of time equal to or greater than 24 hours.
- the step of depositing the perovskite may comprise depositing said perovskite and a single-anion perovskite, wherein said single anion perovskite comprises a first cation, a second cation and an anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions; wherein the first and second cations are as herein defined for said mixed-anion perovskite.
- the photoactive layer may comprise: CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 ; CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 ; CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbI 3 ; or CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbBr 3 .
- the step of depositing the perovskite may comprise depositing more than one perovskite, wherein each perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite, and wherein said mixed-anion perovskite is as herein defined.
- the photoactive layer may comprise two or three said perovskites.
- the photoactive layer may comprise two perovskites wherein both perovskites are mixed-anion perovskites.
- the photoactive layer may comprise: CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 ; CH 3 H 3 PbICl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbBrI 2 ; CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 ; or CH 3 H 3 PbBrCl 2 and CH 3 H 3 PbIBr 2 .
- the step of depositing a sensitizer comprising said perovskite may comprise depositing at least one perovskite, for instance, at least one perovskite having the formula
- the step of depositing a charge transporting material usually comprises depositing a hole transporting material that is a solid state hole transporting material or a liquid
- the charge transporting material in the optoelectronic device of the invention may be any suitable p-type or hole-transporting, semiconducting material.
- the charge transporting material may comprise spiro-OMeTAD (2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p- methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene)), P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene)), PCPDTBT (Poly[2, l,3-benzothiadiazole-4,7-diyl[4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2, l-b:3,4- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]]), PVK (poly(N-vinylcarbazole)), HTM-TFSI (l-hexyl-3- methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsul
- the charge transporting material may be HTM-TFSI or spiro-OMeTAD.
- the charge transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD.
- the charge transporting material may be an inorganic charge transporter, for example the charge transporting material selected from CuNSC, Cul 2 and Cu0 2 .
- the charge transporting material Prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material, the charge transporting material is often dissolved in a solvent, typically chlorobenzene. Usually the concentration of cholorbenzene is from 150 to 225 mg/ml, more usually the concentration is about 180 mg/ml. Typically, the hole transporting material is dissolved in the solvent at a temperature of from 75 to 125°C, more typically at a temperature of about 100°C. Usually the charge transporting material is dissolved for a period of from 25 minutes to 60 minutes, more usually a period of about 30 minutes.
- An additive may be added to the charge transporting material. The additive may be, for instance, tBP, Li-TFSi, an ionic liquid or an ionic liquid with a mixed halide(s).
- the charge transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD.
- tBP is also added to the charge transporting material prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material.
- tBP may be added in a volume to mass ratio of from 1 :20 to 1 :30 ⁇ /mg tBP:spiro-OMeTAD.
- tBP may be added in a volume to mass ratio of about 1 :26 ⁇ /mg tBP:spiro-OMeTAD.
- Li-TFSi may be added to the charge transporting material prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material.
- Li-TFSi may be added at a ratio of from 1 :5 to 1 :20 ⁇ /mg Li-TFSi: spiro-OMe TAD.
- Li-TFSi may be added at a ratio of about 1 : 12 ⁇ /mg Li-TFSi: spiro-OMeT AD.
- the step of depositing a charge transporting material often comprises spin coating a solution comprising the charge transporting material onto the layer comprising said perovskite.
- a small quantity of the solution comprising the charge transporting material is deposited onto the layer comprising said perovskite.
- the small quantity is usually from 5 to 100 ⁇ , more usually from 20 to 70 ⁇ .
- the solution comprising the charge transporting material is typically left for a period of at least 5 seconds, more typically a period of from 5 to 60 seconds, prior to spin coating. For instance, the solution comprising the charge transporting material be left for a period of about 20 seconds prior to spin coating.
- the spin coating of the charge transporting material is usually carried out at from 500 to 3000 rpm, typically at about 1500 rpm.
- the spin coating is often carried our for from 10 to 40 seconds in air, more often for about 25 seconds.
- the step of producing a second electrode usually comprises a step of depositing the second electrode on to the charge transporting material.
- the second electrode is an electrode comprising silver.
- the step of producing a second electrode comprises placing a film comprising the hole transporting material in a thermal evaporator.
- the step of producing a second electrode comprises deposition of the second electrode through a shadow mask under a high vacuum. Typically, the vacuum is about 10 "6 mBar.
- the second electrode may, for example, be an electrode of a thickness from 100 to 200 nm. Typically, the second electrode is an electrode of a thickness from 150 nm.
- the distance between the second electrode and the porous dielectric scaffold material is from is from 50 nm to 400 nm, more typically from 150 nm to 250 nm. Often, the distance between the second electrode and the porous dielectric scaffold material is around 200 nm.
- the process for producing an the optoelectronic device of the invention is a process for producing a photovoltaic device, wherein the AM1.5G lOOmWcm "2 power conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic device is equal to or greater than 7.3 %. Typically, the AM1.5G lOOmWcm "2 power conversion efficiency is equal to or greater than 11.5 %.
- the process for producing an the optoelectronic device of the invention is a process for producing a photovoltaic device, wherein the photocurrent of the photovoltaic device is equal to or greater than 15 mAcm "2 . More typically, the photocurrent is equal to or greater than 20 mAcm "2 .
- CHNH3I methylammonium iodide
- the methylamine can be substituted for other amines, such as ethylamine, n- butylamine, tert-butylamine, octylamine etc. in order to alter the subsequent perovskite properties.
- the hydriodic acid can be substituted with other acids to form different perovskites, such as hydrochloric acid.
- A cation (0,0,0) - ammonium ion
- B cation (1 ⁇ 2, 1 ⁇ 2, 1 ⁇ 2) - divalent metal ion
- X anion (1 ⁇ 2, 1 ⁇ 2, 0) - halogen ion.
- [A] may be varied using different organic elements, for example as in Liang et al., U.S. Patent 5,882,548, (1999) and Mitzi et al., U.S. Patent 6,429,318, (2002).
- photovoltaic devices comprising a mixed-halide perovskite do absorb light and operate as solar cells.
- the perovskites form, but quickly bleach in colour. This bleaching is likely to be due to the adsorption of water on to the perovskite surface, which is known to bleach the materials.
- the complete solar cells are constructed in ambient conditions using these single hailde perovskites, they perform very poorly with full sun light power conversion efficiencies of under 1%.
- the mixed halide perovskites can be processed in air, and show negligible colour bleaching during the device fabrication process.
- the complete solar cell incorporating the mixed halide perovskites perform exceptionally well in ambient conditions, with full sun power conversion efficiency of over 10%.
- Formamidinium iodide (FOI) and formamidinium bromide (FOBr) were synthesised by reacting a 0.5M molar solution of formamidinium acetate in ethanol with a 3x molar excess of hydroiodic acid (for FOI) or hydrobromic acid (for FOBr). The acid was added dropwise whilst stirring at room temperature, then left stirring for another 10 minutes. Upon drying at 100°C, a yellow-white powder is formed, which is then dried overnight in a vacuum oven before use.
- FOPbI 3 and FOPbBr 3 precursor solutions FOI and Pbl 2 or FOBr and PbBr 2 were dissolved in anhydrous ⁇ , ⁇ -dimethylformamide in a 1 : 1 molar ratio, 0.88 millimoles of each per ml, to give 0.88M perovskite solutions.
- FOPbl3 Z Br 3 (i -Z ) perovskite precursors mixtures were made of the FOPbI 3 and FOPbBr 3 0.88M solutions in the required ratios, where z ranges from 0 to 1.
- Films for characterisation or device fabrication were spin-coated in a nitrogen-filled glovebox, and annealed at 170°C for 25 minutes in the nitrogen atmosphere.
- Aluminum oxide dispersion was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (10%wt in water) and was washed in the following manner: it was centrifuged at 7500 rpm for 6h, and redispersed in Absolute Ethanol (Fisher Chemicals) with an ultrasonic probe; which was operated for a total sonication time of 5 minutes, cycling 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off. This process was repeated 3 times.
- Si0 2 particles were synthesized utilizing the following procedure (see G. H. Bogush, M. A. Tracy, C. F. Zukoski, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 1988, 104, 95.):
- the amount of silica was then calculated assuming that all the TEOS reacts. In our case, 2.1 g of Si0 2 was the result of the calculation. For every lg of calculated Si0 2 the following were added: 5.38 g of anhydrous terpineol (Sigma Aldrich) and 8g of a 50:50 mix of ethyl-cellulose 5-15 mPa.s and 30-70 mPa.s purchased from Sigma Aldrich in ethanol, 10% by weight. After the addition of each component, the mix was stirred for 2 minutes and sonicated with the ultrasonic probe for 1 minute of sonication, using a 2 seconds on 2 seconds off cycle.
- anhydrous terpineol Sigma Aldrich
- 8g of a 50:50 mix of ethyl-cellulose 5-15 mPa.s and 30-70 mPa.s purchased from Sigma Aldrich in ethanol, 10% by weight.
- the perovskite solar cells used and presented in these examples were fabricated as follows: Fluorine doped tin oxide (F:Sn0 2 / FTO) coated glass sheets (TEC 15, 15 ⁇ /square, Pilkington USA) were etched with zinc powder and HCl (2 M) to give the required electrode pattern. The sheets were subsequently cleaned with soap (2% Hellemanex in water), distilled water, acetone, ethanol and finally treated under oxygen plasma for 5 minutes to remove any organic residues.
- F:Sn0 2 / FTO coated glass sheets etched with zinc powder and HCl (2 M) to give the required electrode pattern.
- the sheets were subsequently cleaned with soap (2% Hellemanex in water), distilled water, acetone, ethanol and finally treated under oxygen plasma for 5 minutes to remove any organic residues.
- the patterned FTO sheets were then coated with a compact layer of Ti0 2 (100 nm) by aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition of a titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) ethanol solution (1 : 10 titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) to ethanol volume ratio) at 250°C using air as the carrier gas (see Kavan, L. and Gratzel, M., Highly efficient semiconducting Ti0 2 photoelectrodes prepared by aerosol pyrolysis, Electrochim. Acta 40, 643 (1995);
- the insulating metal oxide paste (e.g. the A1 2 0 3 paste) was applied on top of the compact metal oxide layer (typically compact Ti0 2 ), via screen printing, doctor blade coating or spin-coating, through a suitable mesh, doctor blade height or spin-speed to create a film with an average thickness of between 100 to lOOOnm, preferably 200 to 500nm, and most preferably 300 nm.
- the films were subsequently heated to 450 degrees Celsius and held there for 30 minutes in order to degrade and remove the cellulose, and the cooled ready for subsequent perovskite solution deposition.
- the coated films were then placed on a hot plate set at 100 degrees Celsius and left for 45 minutes at this temperature in air, prior to cooling. During the drying procedure at 100 degrees, the coated electrode changed colour from light yellow to dark brown, indicating the formation of the desired perovskite film with the semiconducting properties.
- the hole transporting material used was spiro-OMeTAD (Lumtec, Taiwan), which was dissolved in chlorobenzene at a typical concentration of 180 mg/ml. After fully dissolving the spiro-OMeTAD at 100°C for 30 minutes the solution was cooled and tertbutyl pyridine (tBP) was added directly to the solution with a volume to mass ratio of 1 :26 ⁇ /mg /BP:spiro-MeOTAD.
- tBP tertbutyl pyridine
- Li-TFSI Lithium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amine salt
- acetonitrile 170 mg/ml
- hole-transporter solution 1 : 12 ⁇ /mg of Li-TFSI solution:spiro-MeOTAD.
- a small quantity (20 to 70 ⁇ ) of the spiro- OMeTAD solution was dispensed onto each perovskite coated mesoporous film and left for 20 s before spin-coating at 1500 rpm for 30 s in air.
- the films were then placed in a thermal evaporator where 200 nm thick silver electrodes were deposited through a shadow mask under high vacuum (10 6 mBar). 8. Fabrication of devices comprising FOPbl 3Z Br 3 (i -z )
- Devices were fabricated on fluorine-doped tin oxide coated glass substrates. These were cleaned sequentially in hallmanex, acetone, propan-2-ol and oxygen plasma. A compact layer of Ti0 2 was deposited by spin-coating a mildly acidic solution of titanium isopropoxide in ethanol. This was dried at 150°C for 10 minutes. The Ti0 2 mesoporous layer was deposited by spin-coating at 2000rpm a 1 :7 dilution by weight of Dyesol 18 R-T paste in ethanol, forming a layer of ⁇ 150nm. The layers were then sintered in air at 500°C for 30 minutes.
- perovskite precursors were spin-coated at 2000rpm in a nitrogen- filled glovebox, followed by annealing at 170°C for 25minutes in the nitrogen atmosphere.
- the hole-transport layer was deposited by spin-coating an 8 wt. % 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di- /?methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) in chlorobenzene solution with added tert-butylpyridine (tBP) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Li-TFSI). Devices were completed by evaporation of 60nm Au contacts.
- Devices comprising antimony sulphide were also fabricated.
- the device fabrication was the same as for the standard dye sensitized and perovskite meso-superstructured cells discussed above, except for the thickness of the mesoporous layer.
- the mesoporous layer was (i) ⁇ 1.5 microns for Ti0 2 and (ii) ⁇ 700nm for A1 2 0 3 .
- After sintering the mesoporous Ti0 2 or A1 2 0 3 coated substrates (FTO/compact Ti0 2 /mesoporous oxide) the substrates were put into a cold chemical bath and kept at 10 deg.C for 3 hours.
- the antimony sulphide was grown on the internal surface of the meosporous films within the chemical bath.
- the substrates were rinsed in deionized (DI) water and annealed at 300 deg°C in inert atmosphere (nitrogen glove box) for 30 minutes, then allowed to cool in air.
- the hole transporter P3HT, 15mg/ml in chlorobenzene
- Electrodes were then deposited under high vacuum via thermal evaporation to form a gold/silver 10/150 nm cathode.
- the resulting cells had the structure: FTO / compact Ti0 2 / mesoporous oxide (Ti0 2 or A1 2 0 3 ) coated with antimony sulphide / P3HT / gold/silver. The cells were then tested after leaving in air overnight.
- the chemical bath deposition was carried out as follows: 0.625 mg SbCl 3 was dissolved in 2.5 ml acetone. 25 ml Na 2 S0 3 (1M) was then slowly added, with stirring. The volume was then made up to 100 ml by adding cold DI water, and a few drops of HC1 were added, until the resulting pH was 3.0.
- a "MSSCs" or meso-superstructured solar cell device in which the mesoporous oxide comprises a Ti0 2 mesoporous single crystal electrode where the metal oxide paste was made using the following: 165mg Ti0 2 (assumed); 28uL acetic acid; 72uL water; 550mg terpineol; and 825mg cellulose (10% in EtOH);
- a " P" or dyesol device in which the mesoporous oxide comprises Ti0 2 nanoparticles, the standard dyesol paste; and
- an alumina device in which the mesoporous oxide comprises alumina as the porous dielectric scaffold material.
- the perovskite structure provides a framework to embody organic and inorganic components into a neat molecular composite, herein lie possibilities to manipulate material properties governed by the atomic orbitals of the constituent elements.
- methylammonium iodide lead (II) chloride (CH3NH 3 PbCl 2 l) which is processed from a precursor solution in ⁇ , ⁇ -Dimethylformamide as the solvent via spin-coating in ambient conditions.
- II methylammonium iodide lead
- fluorine doped tin oxide (F:Sn0 2 /FTO) is coated with a compact layer of Ti0 2 via spray-pyrolysis (L. Kavan, M. Gratzel, Electrochim. Acta 40, 643- 652 (1995)), which assures selective collection of electrons at the anode.
- the film is then coated with a paste of alumina, A1 2 0 3 , nanoparticles and cellulose via screen printing, which is subsequently sintered at 500 °C to decompose and remove the cellulose, leaving a film of mesoporous A1 2 0 3 with a porosity of approximately 70%.
- the perovskite precursor solution is coated within the porous alumina film via spin-coating. To elaborate upon this coating process, there has been extensive previous work investigating how solution-cast materials infiltrate into mesoporous oxides (H. J. Snaith et al., Nanotechnology 19, 424003 - 424015
- the degree of "pore-filling" is controlled by varying the solution concentration (J. Melas-Kyriazi et al, Adv. Energy. Mater. 1, 407 - 414 (2011); I-K. Ding et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009); A. Abrusci et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3051-3058 (2011)).)
- the degree of "pore-filling” is controlled by varying the solution concentration (J. Melas-Kyriazi et al, Adv. Energy. Mater. 1, 407 - 414 (2011); I-K. Ding et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009); A. Abrusci et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3051-3058 (2011)).
- a "capping layer” will be formed on top of the mesoporous oxide in addition to a high degree of pore-filling.
- the hole- transporter spiro-OMeTAD
- the spiro-OMeTAD does predominantly fill the pores and forms a capping layer on top of the whole film.
- FIG. 1 A schematic illustration of the device structure is shown in Figure 1, along with further illustrations of the device structure in Figure 2 and Figure 3.
- MSSCs meso-superstructured solar cells
- FIG. 9 A cross sectional SEM image of a complete photoactive layer; Glass- FTO-mesoporous A12O3-K330-spiro-OMeTAD, is shown in Figure 9.
- FIG 4 the current-voltage curve for a solar cell composed of FTO-compact Ti02-mesoprous A1 2 0 3 - CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 l perovskite -spiro-OMeTAD-Ag measured under simulated full sun illumination is shown.
- the short-circuit photocurrent is 17 mA cm "2 and the open-circuit voltage is close to 1 V giving an overall power conversion efficiency of 10.9 %.
- the open-circuit voltage is between 1 to 1.1 V.
- the photovoltaic action spectrum is shown for the solar cell, which gives a peak incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency above 80 % and spans the photoactive region from 450 to 800 nm.
- the power-conversion efficiency for this system is at the very highest level for new and emerging solar technologies (M. A. Green, K. Emery, Y. Hishikawa, W. Warta, E. D. Dunlop, Prog. Photovolt. Res. Appl. 19, 565-572 (2011)), but more exciting than the efficiency is the extremely high open-circuit voltage generated.
- GaAs is the only other photovoltaic technology which both absorbs over the visible to nearlR region and generates such a high open-circuit voltage.
- the "fundamental energy loss" in a solar cell can be quantified as the difference in energy between the open-circuit voltage generated under full sun light and the band-gap of the absorber (H. J. Snaith, Adv. Funct. Mater.
- the theoretical maximum open-circuit voltage can be estimated as a function of band gap following the Shockley-Queisser treatment (I-K. Ding et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009)), and for a material with a band gap of 1.55 eV the maximum possible open-circuit voltage under full sun illumination is 1.3 V, giving a minimum "loss-in- potential" 0.25 eV.
- the open-circuit voltage is plotted versus the optical-band gap of the absorber, for the "best-in-class" of most established and emerging solar technologies.
- the optical band gap is taken to be 1.55 eV and the open-circuit voltage to be 1.1 V.
- the new technology is very well positioned in fourth out of all solar technologies behind GaAs, crystalline silicon and copper indium gallium (di)selenide.
- the perovskite solar cells have fundamental losses than are lower than CdTe, which is the technology of choice for the world's largest solar company. Perovskite crystal structure
- the X-ray diffraction pattern, shown in Figure 8 was extracted at room temperature from CH 3 H3PbCl 2 l thin film coated onto glass slide by using X'pert Pro X-ray
- Figure 8 shows the typical X-ray diffraction pattern of the ( Methylammonium Dichloromonoiodo plumbate(II); CH 3 H 3 PbCl 2 l film on glass substrate.
- Figures 10 to 12 relate to perovskites comprising a formamidinium cation and devices comprising FOPbl 3y Br 3( i -y) .
- it is considered to be advantageous to retain a 3D crystal structure in the perovskite, as opposed to creating layered perovskites which will inevitably have larger exciton binding energies (Journal of Luminescence 60&61 (1994) 269 274).
- the band gap can be changed by either changing the metal cations or halides, which directly influence both the electronic orbitals and the crystal structure.
- the crystal structure can be altered.
- the following geometric condition must be met: wherein RA ,B, & X are the ionic radii of ABX ions.
- the inventor have unexpectedly found that formamidinium cation (FO) does indeed form the perovskite structure in a the cubic structure in a FOPbBr 3 or FOPbL perovskite, and mixed halide perovskites thereof.
- the work leading to this invention has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 20131 ERC grant agreement n° 279881).
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Abstract
The invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material. Typically the semiconductor, which may be a perovskite, is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, so that it is supported on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold. In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device is an optoelectronic device which comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: (a) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) said semiconductor; and (c) a charge transporting material. The invention further provides the use, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device, of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material. Further provided is the use of a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device. In another aspect, the invention provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
Description
OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE COMPRISING POROUS SCAFFOLD MATERIAL
AND PEROVSKITES
Field of the Invention
The invention relates to optoelectronic devices, including photovoltaic devices such as solar cells, and light-emitting devices.
Background to the Invention
Over recent years, the field of optoelectronic devices has developed rapidly, generating new and improved devices that go some way to meeting the ever increasing global demand for low-carbon emissions. However, this demand cannot be met with the devices currently available. The issues with the currently-available technology are illustrated below, using the area of photovoltaic devices.
The leading technologies pushing to realise the ultimate goal of low cost solar power generation are dye-sensitized and organic photovoltaics. Dye-sensitized solar cells are composed of a mesoporous n-type metal oxide photoanode, sensitized with organic or metal complex dye and infiltrated with a redox active electrolyte. [O'Regan, B. and M. Gratzel (1991). "A Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar-Cell Based On Dye-Sensitized Colloidal Ti02 Films." Nature 353(6346): 737-740.] They currently have certified power conversion efficiencies of 11.4% [Martin A. Green et al. Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2011; 19:565-572] and highest reported efficiencies are 12.3% [Aswani Yella, et al. Science 334, 629 (2011)]. The current embodiment of organic solar cells, is a nanostructured composite of a light absorbing and hole-transporting polymer blended with a fullerene derivative acting as the n- type semiconductor and electron acceptor [Yu, G., J. Gao, et al. (1995) Science 270(5243): 1789-1791 and Halls, J. J. M., C. A. Walsh, et al. (1995) Nature 376(6540): 498-500]. The most efficient organic solar cells are now just over 10% [Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables (version 39)." Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20]. Beyond organic materials and dyes, there has been growing activity in the development of solution processable inorganic semiconductors for thin-film solar cells. Specific interest has emerged in colloidal quantum dots, which now have verified efficiencies of over 5%, [Tang, J, et al. Nature Materials 10, 765-771 (2011)] and in cheaply processable thin film
semiconductors grown from solution such as copper zinc tin sulphide selenide (CZTSS) which has generated a lot of excitement recently by breaking the 10% efficiency barrier in a low cost fabrication route. [Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency
tables (version 39)." Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20] The main issue currently with CZTSS system is that it is processed with hydrazine, a highly explosive reducing agent
[Teodor K. Todorov et al. Adv. Matter 2010, 22, E156-E159].
For a solar cell to be efficient, the first requirement is that it absorbs most of the sun light over the visible to near infrared region (300 to 900nm), and converts the light effectively to charge. Beyond this however, the charge needs to be collected at a high voltage in order to do useful work, and it is the generation of a high voltage with suitable current that is the most challenging aspect for the emerging solar technologies. A simple measure of how effective a solar cell is at generating voltage from the light it absorbs, is the difference energy between the optical band gap of the absorber and the open-circuit voltage generated by the solar cell under standard AM1.5G lOOmWcm"2 solar illumination [H J Snaith et al. Adv. Func. Matter 2009, 19 , 1-7]. For instance, for the most efficient single junction GaAs solar cells the open circuit voltage is 1.11 V and the band gap is 1.38eV giving a "loss-in-potential" of approximately 270 meV [Martin A. Green et al. Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2011; 19:565- 572]. For dye-sensitized and organic solar technologies these losses are usually on the order of 0.65 to 0.8eV. The reason for the larger losses in the organics is due to a number of factors. Organic semiconductors used in photovoltaics are generally hindered by the formation of tightly bound excitons due to their low dielectric constants. In order to obtain effective charge separation after photoexcitation, the semiconducting polymer is blended with an electron accepting molecule, typically a fullerene derivative, which enables charge separation. However, in doing so, a significant loss in energy is required to do the work of separating the electron and hole. [Dennler, G., M. C. Scharber, et al. (2009). "Polymer- Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells." Advanced Materials 21(13): 1323-1338] Dye- sensitized solar cells have losses, both due to electron transfer from the dye (the absorber) into the Ti02 which requires a certain "driving force" and due to dye regeneration from the electrolyte which requires an "over potential". For dye-sensitized solar cells, moving from a multi-electron Iodide/triiodide redox couple to one-electron outer-sphere redox couples, such as a cobalt complexes or a solid-state hole-conductor, improves the issue but large losses still remain [Oregan 91, Aswani Yella, et al. Science 334, 629 (2011), and Bach 98 and Gratzel solid-state JACS]. There is an emerging area of "extremely thin absorber" solar cells which are a variation on the solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell.[ Y. Itzhaik, O. Niitsoo, M. Page, G. Hodes, J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 4254-4256 (2009)] An extremely thin absorber (ETA) (few nm thick) layer is coated upon the internal surface of a mesoporous Ti02 electrode, and
subsequently contacted with a solid-state hole-conductor or electrolyte. These devices have achieved efficiencies of up to 7% for solid-state devices employing Sb2S3 as the absorber,[ J. A. Chang et al., Nano Lett. 12, 1863-1867 (2012)] and up to 6.5% employing a lead-halide perovskite in photoelectrochemical solar cell.[ A. Kojima, K. Teshima, Y. Shirai, T.
Miyasaka, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 6050-6051 (2009); J-H Im, C-R Lee, J-W Lee, S-W Park, N-G Park, Nanoscale 3, 4088 - 4093 (2011)] However, the ETA concept still suffer from rather low open-circuit voltages.
There is therefore a need for a new approach to developing optoelectronic devices. New systems that combine favourable properties such as high device efficiency and power conversion, with device stability are required. In addition, the devices should consist of inexpensive materials that may be easily tuned to provide the desirable properties and should be capable of being manufactured on a large scale.
Summary Of The Invention
The present inventors have provided optoelectronic devices which exhibit many favourable properties including high device efficiency. Record power conversion efficiencies as high as 11.5% have been demonstrated under simulated AMI .5 full sun light.
Other characteristics that have been observed in devices according to the invention are, for instance, surprisingly efficient charge collection and extremely high open-circuit voltages approaching 1.2 V. These devices show fewer fundamental loses than comparable devices currently on the market.
These advantages have been achieved using a device which comprises (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material and (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material. Typically the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, so that it is supported on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold. A charge transporting material is typically also employed, which infiltrates into the porous structure of the scaffold material so that it is in contact with the semiconductor that is supported on the scaffold. The semiconductor typically acts as a light- absorbing, photosensitising material, as well as an charge-transporting material. When, for instance, the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor, the porous nanostructure of the semiconductor/scaffold composite helps rapidly to remove the holes from the n-type absorber, so that purely majority carriers are present in the absorber layer. This overcomes
the issue of short diffusion lengths which would arise if the semiconductor were employed in solid, thin-film form.
The materials used in the device of the invention are inexpensive, abundant and readily available and the individual components of the devices exhibit surprisingly stability. Further, the methods of producing the device are suitable for large-scale production.
For example, in some embodiments the inventors have taken advantage of the properties of inorganic semiconductors by using a layered organometal halide perovskite as the absorber, which is composed of abundant elements. This material may be processed from a precursor solution via spin-coating in ambient conditions. In a solid-thin film form, it operates moderately well as a solar cell with a maximum efficiency of 3%. However, in order to overcome the issue of short diffusion lengths, the inventors have created the above- mentioned nanostructured composite. In some embodiments the scaffold is a mesoporous insulating aluminium oxide, which is subsequently coated with the perovskite film and dried which realises a mesoporous perovskite electrode. This may then be infiltrated with a p-type hole-conductor which acts as to carry the photoinduced holes out of the device. This new architecture and material system has an optical band gap of 1.56eV and generates up to 1.1V open-circuit voltage under AM1.5G lOOmWcm"2 sun light. This difference, which represents the fundamental loses in the solar cell, is only 0.44eV, lower than any other emerging photovoltaic technology. The overall power conversion efficiency of 11.5% is also one of the highest reported, and represents the starting point for this exciting technology. With mind to the very low potential drop from band gap to open-circuit voltage, this concept has scope to become the dominating low cost solar technology.
Accordingly, the invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
Typically, the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Thus, usually, the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention as defined above is an optoelectronic device which comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises:
said porous dielectric scaffold material; and
said semiconductor.
The invention further provides the use, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device, of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
Further provided is the use of a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device.
In another aspect, the invention provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
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Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a photovoltaic device comprising a mixed-anion perovskite.
Figure 2 is an isometric cross-section drawing of a generic meso-superstructured solar cell: (1) metal cathode, (2) hole-conducting material, mesoporous insulating metal oxide with absorber and hole-conducting material (see Figure 4 for clarification), (3) transparent conducting metal oxide (anode), (4) transparent substrate, (5) metal anode, (6) compact n- type metal oxide.
Figure 3 is a schematic showing cross-section of the 'active layer' of a generic nanostructured solar cell: (2(i)) light sensitive absorber, (2(ii)) insulating metal oxide, metal cathode, (6) compact n-type metal oxide, (7) hole-conducting material.
Figure 4 shows the current-voltage characteristics under simulated AM1.5G illumination of a device assembled in mesoporous absorber structure with hole-conductor: F:Sn02/Compact Ti02/Mesoporous A1203/ CH3 H3PbCl2I /Spiro OMeTAD/Ag. On the graph the voltage in volts is plotted on the x-axis and the current density in mAcm"2 is plotted on the y-axis.
Figure 5 shows the UV-Vis absorbance spectra for a device assembled in absorber-sensitised structure with hole-conductor: F:Sn02/Compact Ti02/mesoporous oxide/ CH3 H3PbCl2I
/Spiro OMeTAD sealed using surlyn and epoxy with light soaking under simulated AM1.5G illumination over time. On the graph wavelength in nm is plotted on the x-axis and the absorbance in arbitrary units is plotted on the y-axis.
Figure 6 shows the Incident Photon-to-Electron Conversion Efficiency (IPCE) action spectra of a device assembled in mesoporous absorber structure with hole-conductor:
F:Sn02/Compact Ti02/Mesoporous A1203/ CH3 H3PbCl2I /Spiro-OMeTAD/Ag. On the graph the wavelength in nm is plotted on the x-axis and the IPCE in plotted on the y-axis.
Figure 7 is a graph of optical band gap on the x-axis against the open-circuit voltage on the y- axis for the "best-in-class" solar cells for most current solar technologies. All the data for the GaAs, Si, CIGS, CdTe, nanocrystaline Si (ncSi), amorphous Si (aSi), CZTSS organic photovoltaics (OPV) and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) was taken from Green, M. A., K. Emery, et al. (2012). "Solar cell efficiency tables version 39)." Progress in Photovoltaics 20(1): 12-20. The optical band gap has been estimated by taking the onset of the incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency, as described in [Barkhouse DAR, Gunawan O, Gokmen T, Todorov TK, Mitzi DB. Device characteristics of a 10.1% hydrazineprocessed Cu2ZnSn(Se,S)4 solar cell. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 2012; published online DOI: 10.1002/pip. l l60.]
Figure 8 is an X-ray diffraction pattern extracted at room temperature from CH3 H3PbCl2I thin film coated onto glass slide by using X'pert Pro X-ray Diffractometer. #
Figure 9 shows a cross sectional SEM image of a complete photoactive layer; Glass-FTO- mesoporous A1203 -K330-spiro-OMeTAD .
Figure 10(a) shows UV-vis absorption spectra of the range of FOPbI3yBr3(i-y) perovskites and Figure 10(b) shows steady-state photoluminescence spectra of the same samples.
Figure 1 l(a-c) provides schematic diagrams of: (a) the general perovskite ABX3 unit cell; (b) the cubic perovskite lattice structure (the unit cell is shown as an overlaid square); and (c) the tetragonal perovskite lattice structure arising from a distortion of the BX6 octahedra (the unit cell is shown as the larger overlaid square, and the pseudocubic unit cell that it can be described by is shown as the smaller overlaid square).
Figure 11(d) shows X-ray diffraction data for the FOPbI3yBr3(i-y) perovskites, for various values of y ranging from 0 to 1. Figure 11(e) shows a magnification of the transition between
the (100) cubic peak and the (110) tetragonal peak, corresponding to the (100) pseudocubic peak, as the system moves from bromide to iodide. Figure 11(f) shows a plot of bandgap against calculated pseudocubic lattice parameter.
Figure 12(a) shows average current-voltage characteristics for a batch of solar cells comprising FOPbl3yBr3(i-y) perovskites sensitizing mesoporous titania, with spiro-OMeTAD as the hole transporter, measured under simulated AMI .5 sunlight. Figure 12(b) shows a normalised external quantum efficiency for representative cells, and Figure 12(c) shows a plot of the device parameters of merit for the batch, as a function of the iodine fraction, y, in the FOPbI3yBr3(i-y) perovskite.
Figure 13 shows plots of device parameters of merit for (i) a meso-superstructured solar cell device (mesocrystal or MSSC), (ii) a Ti02 nanoparticle device and (iii) an alumina device.
Figure 14 shows the characteristic current voltage of the three device types shown in Figure 13.
Detailed Description of the Invention
The invention provides an optoelectronic device comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
As used herein, the term "porous" refers to a material within which pores are arranged. In a "porous dielectric scaffold material" the pores are volumes within the dielectric scaffold where there is no dielectric scaffold material. The individual pores may be the same size or different sizes. The size of the pores is defined as the "pore size". For spherical pores, the pore size is equal to the diameter of the sphere. For pores that are not spherical, the pore size is equal to the diameter of a sphere, the volume of said sphere being equal to the volume of the non-spherical pore.
The term "dielectric material", as used herein, refers to material which is an electrical insulator or a very poor conductor of electric current. The term dielectric therefore excludes semiconducting materials such as titania. The term dielectric, as used herein, typically refers to materials having a band gap of equal to or greater than 4.0 eV. (The band gap of titania is about 3.2 eV.)
The term "porous dielectric scaffold material", as used herein, therefore refers to a dielectric material which is itself porous, and which is capable of acting as a support for a further material such as said coating comprising said perovskite.
The term "semiconductor" as used herein refers to a material with electrical conductivity intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and a dielectric. The semiconductor may be an n-type semiconductor, a p-type semiconductor or an intrinsic semiconductor. As used herein, the term "n-type", refers to an n-type, or electron
transporting material. The n-type semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable n-type semiconductor. As used herein, the term "p-type", refers to a p-type, or hole transporting material. The p-type semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable p-type semiconductor. The intrinsic semiconductor used in the present invention may be any suitable intrinsic semiconductor.
Any suitable semiconductor can be used in the optoelectronic device of the invention. For instance, the semiconductor may be a compound or elemental semiconductor comprising any element in the periodic table or any combination of elements in the periodic table.
Examples of semiconductors which can be used in the optoelectronic device of the invention include perovskites; and compounds comprising gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodinium, palladium, copper or lead, for instance, a chalcogenides of antimony, copper, zinc, iron, or bismuth (such as copper sulphide, iron sulphide, iron pyrite); copper zinc tin chalcogenides, for example, copper zinc tin sulphides such a Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and copper zinc tin sulphur-selenides such as Cu2ZnSn(Si-xSex)4 (CZTSSe); copper indium chalcogenides such as copper indium selenide (CIS); copper indium gallium chalcogenides such as copper indium gallium selenides (CuIni-xGaxSe2) (CIGS) ; and copper indium gallium diselenide. Further examples are group IV compound semiconductors; group III-V semiconductors (e.g. gallium arsenide); group II- VI semiconductors (e.g. cadmium selenide); group I- VII semiconductors (e.g. cuprous chloride); group IV- VI semiconductors (e.g. lead selenide); group V-VI semiconductors (e.g. bismuth telluride); and group II- V
semiconductors (e.g. cadmium arsenide).
The skilled person is readily able to measure the band gap of a semiconductor, by using well-known procedures which do not require undue experimentation. For instance, the band gap of the semiconductor can be estimated by constructing a photovoltaic diode or solar cell from the semiconductor and determining the photovoltaic action spectrum. The
monochromatic photon energy at which the photocurrent starts to be generated by the diode can be taken as the band gap of the semiconductor; such a method was used by Barkhouse et al, Prog. Photovolt: Res. Appl. 2012; 20:6-11. References herein to the band gap of the semiconductor mean the band gap as measured by this method, i.e. the band gap as determined by recording the photovoltaic action spectrum of a photovoltaic diode or solar cell constructed from the semiconductor and observing the monochromatic photon energy at which significant photocurrent starts to be generated.
In some embodiments, the band gap of the semiconductor is less than or equal to 2.5 eV. The band gap may for instance be less than or equal to 2.3 eV, or for instance less than or equal to 2.0 eV.
Usually, the band gap is at least 0.5 eV. However, other embodiments are also envisaged, in which the band gap of the semiconductor is close to 0, so that the
semiconductor has conducting properties similar to those of a metal. Thus, the band gap of the semiconductor may be from 0.5 eV to 3.0 eV, or for instance from 0.5 eV to2.8 eV. In some embodiments it is from 0.5 eV to 2.5 eV, or for example from 0.5 eV to 2.3 eV. The band gap of the semiconductor may for instance be from 0.5 eV to 2.0 eV. In other embodiments, the band gap of the semiconductor may be from 1.0 eV to 3.0 eV, or for instance from 1.0 eV to2.8 eV. In some embodiments it is from 1.0 eV to 2.5 eV, or for example from 1.0 eV to 2.3 eV. The band gap of the semiconductor may for instance be from 1.0 eV to 2.0 eV.
The band gap of the semiconductor can be from 1.2 eV to 1.8 eV. The band gaps of organometal halide perovskite semiconductors, for example, are typically in this range and may for instance, be about 1.5 eV or about 1.6 eV. Thus, in one embodiment the band gap of the semiconductor is from 1.3 eV to 1.7 eV.
The semiconductor is in contact with the porous dielectric scaffold material, i.e. it is supported by the scaffold material. Thus, the semiconductor is typically disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material, like a coating. Thus, as the skilled person will appreciate, this means that the semiconductor is usually coated on the inside surfaces of pores within the porous dielectric scaffold material, as well as on the outer surfaces of the scaffold material. This is shown schematically in Figure 1. If the semiconductor is in contact with the scaffold material within the pores of the scaffold material, the pores are usually not
completely filled by the semiconductor. Rather, the semiconductor is typically present as a coating on the inside surface of the pores.
Thus, typically the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of the porous dielectric scaffold material. Usually, the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within the scaffold.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Thus, as explained above, the semiconductor may be disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material. As the skilled person will appreciate, the semiconductor may be disposed on the surfaces of some or all pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium, or mixtures thereof, for instance, the dielectric scaffold material may comprise an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate. More typically, the dielectric scaffold material comprises porous alumina.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the dielectric scaffold material is mesoporous.
The term "mesoporous", as used herein means that the pores in the porous structure are microscopic and have a size which is usefully measured in nanometres (nm). The mean pore size of the pores within a "mesoporous" structure may for instance be anywhere in the range of from 1 nm to 100 nm, or for instance from 2 nm to 50 nm. Individual pores may be different sizes and may be any shape.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the dielectric scaffold material comprises mesoporous alumina.
The porosity of said dielectric scaffold material is usually at least 50%. For instance, the porosity may be about 70%. In one embodiment, the porosity is at least 60%, for instance at least 70%.
As defined above, a porous material is material within which pores are arranged. The total volume of the porous material is the volume of the material plus the volume of the pores. The term "porosity", as used herein, is the percentage of the total volume of the
material that is occupied by the pores. Thus if, for example, the total volume of the porous material was 100 nm3 and the volume of the pores was 70 nm3, the porosity of the material would be equal to 70%.
Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the dielectric scaffold material, is mesoporous.
Typically, the semiconductor used in the present invention is also a photosensitizing material, i.e. a material which is capable of performing both photogeneration and charge (electron) transportation.
In the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor may comprise a copper zinc tin chalcogenide, for example, a copper zinc tin sulphide such a Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and copper zinc tin sulphur-selenides such as Cu2ZnSn(Si-xSex)4 (CZTSSe).
Alternatively, the semiconductor may comprise an antimony or bismuth chalcogenide, such as, for example, Sb2S3, Sb2Se3, Bi2S3 or Bi2Se3.
The semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
The semiconductor may alternatively be gallium arsenide.
Usually, the semiconductor comprises a perovskite as herein defined.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, semiconductor comprises a perovskite, Sb2S3, Sb2Se3, Bi2S3, Bi2Se3, CIS, CIGS, CZTS, CZTSSe, FeS2, CdS, CdSe, PbS, PbSe, Ge or GaAs, preferably wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, CZTS, CZTSSe, gallium arsenide, an antimony chalcogenide, or a bismuth chalcogenide.
The semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor.
Often, the p-type semiconductor comprises a perovskite or a chalcogenide.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor.
Usually, the intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite or gallium aresenide.
In some embodiments, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
Alternatively, in some embodiments, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, Sb2S3, Sb2Se3, Bi2S3, Bi2Se3, CIS, CIGS, CZTS, CZTSSe, FeS2, CdS, CdSe, PbS, PbSe, Ge or GaAs, preferably wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, CZTS, CZTSSe, gallium arsenide, an antimony chalcogenide, or a bismuth chalcogenide.
The semiconductor may, for instance, comprise antimony sulphide.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 2.5 eV, optionally less than or equal to 2.0 eV.
Often, the band gap is at least 0.5 eV.
In some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, the
semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
The term "perovskite", as used herein, refers to a material with a three-dimensional crystal structure related to that of CaTi03 or a material comprising a layer of material, wherein the layer has a structure related to that of CaTi03. The structure of CaTi03 can be represented by the formula ABX3, wherein A and B are cations of different sizes and X is an anion. In the unit cell, the A cations are at (0,0,0), the B cations are at (1/2, 1/2, 1/2) and the X anions are at (1/2, 1/2, 0). The A cation is usually larger than the B cation. The skilled person will appreciate that when A, B and X are varied, the different ion sizes may cause the structure of the perovskite material to distort away from the structure adopted by CaTi03 to a lower-symmetry distorted structure. The symmetry will also be lower if the material
comprises a layer that has a structure related to that of CaTi03. Materials comprising a layer of perovskite material are well known. For instance, the structure of materials adopting the K2NiF4-type structure comprises a layer of perovskite material. The skilled person will appreciate that a perovskite material can be represented by the formula [A][B][X]3, wherein [A] is at least one cation, [B] is at least one cation and [X] is at least one anion. When the perovskite comprise more than one A cation, the different A cations may distributed over the A sites in an ordered or disordered way. When the perovskite comprise more than one B cation, the different B cations may distributed over the B sites in an ordered or disordered way. When the perovskite comprise more than one X anion, the different X anions may distributed over the X sites in an ordered or disordered way. The symmetry of a perovskite comprising more than one A cation, more than one B cation or more than one X cation, will be lower than that of CaTi03.
As the skilled person will appreciate, the perovskite may be a perovskite which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped. Alternatively, it may be a perovskite which acts as a p-type hole-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped. Thus, the perovksite may be n-type or p-type, or it may be an intrinsic semiconductor. Typically, the perovskite employed is one which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting semiconductor when photo-doped.
The optoelectronic device of the invention usually further comprises a charge transporting material disposed within pores of said porous material. The charge transporting material may be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material. As the skilled person will appreciate, when the perovskite is an intrinsic semiconductor the charge transporting material can be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material. However, when the perovskite is an n-type semiconductor, the charge transporting material is typically a hole transporting material. Also, when the perovskite is a p-type semiconductor, the charge transporting material is typically an electron transporting material.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite comprises at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
The term "halide" refers to an anion of a group 7 element, i.e., of a halogen.
Typically, halide refers to a fluoride anion, a chloride anion, a bromide anion, an iodide anion or an astatide anion.
The term "chalcogenide anion", as used herein refers to an anion of group 6 element, i.e. of a chalcogen. Typically, chalcogenide refers to an oxide anion, a sulphide anion, a selenide anion or a telluride anion.
In the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite often comprises a first cation, a second cation, and said at least one anion.
As the skilled person will appreciate, the perovskite may comprise further cations or further anions. For instance, the perovskite may comprise two, three or four different first cations; two, three or four different second cations; or two, three of four different anions.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the second cation in the perovskite is a metal cation. More typically, the second cation is a divalent metal cation. For instance, the second cation may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the second cation is selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+.
In the optoelectronic device of the invention, the first cation in the perovskite is usually an organic cation.
The term "organic cation" refers to a cation comprising carbon. The cation may comprise further elements, for example, the cation may comprise hydrogen, nitrogen or oxygen.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the organic cation has the formula (RiR2R3R4N)+, wherein:
Ri is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
R2 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
R3 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and
R4 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl.
As used herein, an alkyl group can be a substituted or unsubstituted, linear or branched chain saturated radical, it is often a substituted or an unsubstituted linear chain saturated radical, more often an unsubstituted linear chain saturated radical. A C1-C20 alkyl group is an unsubstituted or substituted, straight or branched chain saturated hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms. Typically it is C1-C10 alkyl, for example methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl or decyl, or Ci-C6 alkyl, for example methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl or hexyl, or C1-C4 alkyl, for example methyl, ethyl, i- propyl, n-propyl, t-butyl, s-butyl or n-butyl.
When an alkyl group is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl (as defined herein), cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci-Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, hydroxy, oxo, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfonic acid, sulfhydryl (i.e. thiol, -SH), C1-C10 alkylthio, arylthio, sulfonyl, phosphoric acid, phosphate ester, phosphonic acid and phosphonate ester. Examples of substituted alkyl groups include haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl and alkaryl groups. The term alkaryl, as used herein, pertains to a C1-C20 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom has been replaced with an aryl group. Examples of such groups include, but are not limited to, benzyl (phenylmethyl, PhCH2-), benzhydryl (Ph2CH-), trityl (triphenylmethyl, Ph3C-), phenethyl (phenylethyl, Ph-CH2CH2-), styryl (Ph-CH=CH-), cinnamyl (Ph-CH=CH-CH2-).
Typically a substituted alkyl group carries 1, 2 or 3 substituents, for instance 1 or 2.
An aryl group is a substituted or unsubstituted, monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic group which typically contains from 6 to 14 carbon atoms, preferably from 6 to 10 carbon atoms in the ring portion. Examples include phenyl, naphthyl, indenyl and indanyl groups. An aryl group is unsubstituted or substituted. When an aryl group as defined above is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from Ci-C6 alkyl which is unsubstituted (to form an aralkyl group), aryl which is unsubstituted, cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci- Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, hydroxy, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfhydryl (i.e. thiol, -SH), Ci-10 alkylthio, arylthio, sulfonic acid, phosphoric acid, phosphate ester, phosphonic acid and phosphonate ester and sulfonyl. Typically it carries 0, 1, 2 or 3 substituents. A substituted aryl group may be substituted in two positions with a single Ci-C6 alkylene group, or with a
bidentate group represented by the formula -X-(Ci-C6)alkylene, or -X-(Ci-C6)alkylene-X-, wherein X is selected from O, S and NR, and wherein R is H, aryl or Ci-C6 alkyl. Thus a substituted aryl group may be an aryl group fused with a cycloalkyl group or with a heterocyclyl group. The ring atoms of an aryl group may include one or more heteroatoms (as in a heteroaryl group). Such an aryl group (a heteroaryl group) is a substituted or
unsubstituted mono- or bicyclic heteroaromatic group which typically contains from 6 to 10 atoms in the ring portion including one or more heteroatoms. It is generally a 5- or 6- membered ring, containing at least one heteroatom selected from O, S, N, P, Se and Si. It may contain, for example, 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms. Examples of heteroaryl groups include pyridyl, pyrazinyl, pyrimidinyl, pyridazinyl, furanyl, thienyl, pyrazolidinyl, pyrrolyl, oxazolyl, oxadiazolyl, isoxazolyl, thiadiazolyl, thiazolyl, isothiazolyl, imidazolyl, pyrazolyl, quinolyl and isoquinolyl. A heteroaryl group may be unsubstituted or substituted, for instance, as specified above for aryl. Typically it carries 0, 1, 2 or 3 substituents.
Mainly, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, Ri in the organic cation is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and Rt is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl. For instance Ri may be hydrogen or methyl, R2 may be hydrogen or methyl, R3 may be hydrogen or methyl, and Rt may be hydrogen or methyl.
Alternatively, the organic cation may have the formula (R5NH3)+, wherein: R5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl. For instance, R5 may be methyl or ethyl. Typically, R5 is methyl.
wherein: R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; R7 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and R8 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or
unsubstituted or substituted aryl.
Typically, R5 in the organic cation is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R5 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R7 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and R8 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl. For instance R5 may be hydrogen or methyl, R5 may be hydrogen or methyl, R7 may be hydrogen or methyl, and R8 may be hydrogen or methyl.
The organic cation may, for example, have the formula (H2N=CH-NH2)+.
In one embodiment, the perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. For instance, the mixed-anion perovskite may comprise two different anions and, for instance, the anions may be a halide anion and a chalcogenide anion, two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions. The first and second cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the first cation may be an organic cation, which may be as further defined herein. For instance it may be a cation of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+, or formula (R5 H3)+, as defined above. The second cation may be a divalent metal cation. For instance, the second cation may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the second cation is selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+.
In another embodiment, the perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. For instance, the mixed-anion perovskite may comprise two different anions and, for instance, the anions may be a halide anion and a chalcogenide anion, two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions. The first and second cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the first cation may be an organic cation, which may be as further defined herein. For instance it may be a cation of formula
or formula ((H2N=CH- H2)+, as defined above. The second cation may be a divalent metal cation. For instance, the second cation may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the second cation is selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+.
In the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite is usually a mixed-halide perovskite, wherein said two or more different anions are two or more different halide anions. Typically, they are two or three halide anions, more typically, two different halide anions. Usually the halide anions are selected from fluoride, chloride, bromide and iodide, for instance chloride, bromide and iodide.
Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
For instance, the perovskite of the formula (I) may comprise one, two, three or four different metal cations, typically one or two different metal cations. The perovskite of the formula (I), may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different organic cations, typically one or two different organic cations. The perovskite of the formula (I), may, for instance, comprise one two, three or four different anions, typically two or three different anions.
The organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+ and cations of formula (R5 H3) , as defined above. The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
The organic cation may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from
Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, [X] in formula (I) is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
In one embodiment, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (IA):
AB[X]3 (IA) wherein:
A is an organic cation; B is a metal cation; and
[X] is at least one anion.
Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, [X] in formula (IA) is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. Usually, [X] is two or more different halide anions. Preferably, [X] is two or three different halide anions. More preferably, [X] is two different halide anions. In another embodiment [X] is three different halide anions.
The organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the organic cation may be selected from cations of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+ and cations of formula (R5 H3)+, as defined above. The metal cation may be a divalent metal cation. For instance, the metal cation may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
The organic cation may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
as defined above. The metal cation may be a divalent metal cation. For instance, the metal cation may be selected from
Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (II):
ABX3-yX'y (II) wherein:
A is an organic cation;
B is a metal cation;
X is a first halide anion;
X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and y is from 0.05 to 2.95.
Usually, y is from 0.5 to 2.5, for instance from 0.75 to 2.25. Typically, y is from 1 to
2.
Again, the organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the organic cation may be a cation of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+ or, more typically, a cation of formula (R5 H3) , as defined above. The metal cation may be a divalent metal cation. For instance, the metal cation may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
A is an organic cation of the formula (R5R6N=CH- R7R8)+, wherein: R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; 5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; R7 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and R8 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
B is a metal cation;
X is a first halide anion;
X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and z is greater than 0 and less than 1. Usually, z is from 0.05 to 0.95.
Preferably, z is from 0.1 to 0.9. z may, for instance, be 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 or 0.9, or z may be a range of from any one of these values, to any other of these values (for instance from 0.2 to 0.7, or from 0.1 to 0.8).
Typically, X is a halide anion and X' is a chalcogenide anion, or X and X' are two different halide anions or two different chalcogenide anions. Usually, X and X' are two different halide anions. For instance, one of said two or more different halide anions may be iodide and another of said two or more different halide anions may be bromide.
Usually, B is a divalent metal cation. For instance, B may be a divalent metal cation, selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+
and Eu2+. Usually, B is a divalent metal cation selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+. For instance, B may be Pb2+.
The organic cation may, for instance, be (R5R6N=CH- R7R8)+, wherein: R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently selected from hydrogen and unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C6 alkyl. For instance, the organic cation may be (H2N=CH- H2)+.
Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskites are selected from CH3 H3PbI3, CH3 H3PbBr3, CH3 H3PbCl3, CH3 H3PbF3, CH3 H3PbBrI2,
CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnBrI2, CH3 H3SnBrCl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnIBr2, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnClBr2, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. For instance, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskites may be selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnBrI2, CH3 H3SnBrCl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnIBr2, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnClBr2, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. Typically, the perovskite is selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2,
CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. More typically, the perovskite is selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2,
CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnF2I and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. Usually, the perovskite is selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, and CH3 H3SnF2I.
In some embodiments, the perovskite may be a perovskite of formula
The optoelectronic device of the invention may comprise said perovskite and a single- anion perovskite, wherein said single anion perovskite comprises a first cation, a second cation and an anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions; wherein the first and second cations are as herein defined for said mixed-anion perovskite. For instance, the optoelectronic device may comprise: CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbI3; CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbBr3; CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbI3; or CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbBr3.
The optoelectronic device may comprise a perovskite of formula
wherein z is as defined herein, and a single-anion perovskite such as (H2N=CH- H2)PbI3 or (H2N=CH- H2)PbBr3.
Alternatively, the optoelectronic device of the invention may comprise more than one perovskite, wherein each perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite, and wherein said mixed- anion perovskite is as herein defined. For instance, the optoelectronic device may comprise two or three said perovskites. The optoelectronic device of the invention may, for instance, comprise two perovskites wherein both perovskites are mixed-anion perovskites. For instance, the optoelectronic device may comprise: CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2;
CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbBrI2; CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2; or
CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2.
The optoelectronic device may comprise two different perovskites, wherein each perovskite is a perovskite of formula
wherein z is as defined herein.
In some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, when [B] is a single metal cation which is Pb2+, one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide or fluoride; and when [B] is a single metal cation which is Sn2+ one of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride. Usually, in some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide or fluoride. Typically, in some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, one of said two or more different halide anions is iodide and another of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride or chloride. Often, in some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, one of said two or more different halide anions is fluoride. Typically, in some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, either: (a) one of said two or more different anions is fluoride and another of said said two or more different anions is chloride, bromide or iodide; or (b) one of said two or more different anions is iodide and another of said two or more different anions is fluoride or chloride. Typically, [X] is two different halide anions X and X' . Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, said divalent metal cation is Sn2+. Alternatively, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, said divalent metal cation may be Pb2+.
Usually, the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor.
Typically, the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor.
In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention further comprises a charge transporting material.
The charge transporting material may, for instance, be a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material.
When the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the hole transporting material in the optoelectronic device of the invention may be any suitable p-type or hole-transporting, semiconducting material. Typically, the hole transporting material is a small molecular or polymer-based hole conductor.
Typically, when the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the charge transporting material is a solid state hole transporting material or a liquid electrolyte.
Often, when the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the charge transporting material is a polymeric or molecular hole transporter. Typically, the charge transporting material comprises spiro-OMeTAD (2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p- methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene)), P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene)), PCPDTBT (Poly[2, l,3-benzothiadiazole-4,7-diyl[4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2, l-b:3,4- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]]), PVK (poly(N-vinylcarbazole)), HTM-TFSI (l-hexyl-3- methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)iniide), Li-TFSI (lithium
bis(trifluoromethaiiesulfonyl)imide) or tBP (tert-butylpyridine). Usually, the charge transporting material is selected from spiro-OMeTAD, P3HT, PCPDTBT and PVK.
Preferable, the hole transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD.
When the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the charge transporting material may be a molecular hole transporter, or a polymer or copolymers.
Often, the charge transporting material is a molecular hole transporting material, a polymer or copolymer comprises one or more of the following moieties: thiophenyl, phenelenyl, dithiazolyl, benzothiazolyl, diketopyrrolopyrrolyl, ethoxydithiophenyl, amino, triphenyl amino, carbozolyl, ethylene dioxythiophenyl, dioxy thiophenyl, or fluorenyl.
Alternatively, when the charge transporting material is an hole transporting material, the charge transporting material may be an inorganic hole transporter, for instance, the charge transporting material may be Cul, CuBr, CuSCN, Cu20, CuO or CIS.
When the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material, the charge transporting material often comprises a fullerene or perylene, or derivatives thereof, or P( DI20D-T2). For instance, the charge transporting material may be P( DI20D-T2).
In some embodiments, the charge transporting material comprises a perovskite.
When the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material, the hole transporting material may comprise a perovskite.
Likewise, when the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material, the electron transporting material may comprise a perovskite.
Usually, said semiconductor comprises a first perovskite, wherein the first perovskite is as defined hereinabove, and said charge transporting material comprises a second perovskite, wherein the first and second perovskites are the same or different.
As described above, the semiconductor must have a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV. The skilled person will appreciate that the second perovskite is not necessarily a perovskite that has a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV. Thus the second perovskite may have a band gap of equal to or less than 3.0 eV or, in some embodiments, the second perovskite may have a band gap of greater than 3.0 eV.
The skilled person will also appreciate that, usually, either (i) the first perovskite is an n-type material and the second perovskite is a p-type material, or (ii) the first perovskite is a p-type material and the second perovskite is an n-type material. The skilled person will also appreciate that the addition of a doping agent to a perovskite may be used to control the charge transfer properties of that perovskite. Thus, for instance, a perovskite that is an instrinic material may be doped to form an n-type or a p-type material. Accordingly, the first perovskite and/or the second perovskite may comprise one or more doping agent. Typically the doping agent is a dopant element.
The addition of different doping agents to different samples of the same material may result in the different samples having different charge transfer properties. For instance, the addition of one doping agent to a first sample of perovskite material may result in the first
sample becoming an n-type material, whilst the addition of a different doping agent to a second sample of the same perovskite material may result in the second sample becoming a p-type material.
In some embodiments of the optoelectronic device of the invention, the first and second perovskites may be the same.
Alternatively, the first and second perovskites may be different. When the first and second perovskites are different, at least one of the first and second perovskites may comprise a doping agent. The first perovskite may for instance comprise a doping agent that is not present in the second perovsite. Additionally or alternatively, the second perovskite may for instance comprise a doping agent that is not present in the first perovskite. Thus the difference between the first and second perovskites may be the presence or absence of a doping agent, or it may be the use of a different doping agent in each perovskite.
Alternatively, the first and second perovskites may comprise the same doping agent. Thus the difference between the first and second perovskites may not lie in the doping agent but instead the difference may lie in the overall structure of the first and second perovskites. In other words, the first and second perovskites may be different perovskite compounds.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and at least one anion.
In some embodiments, the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite compound of formula (IB):
[A][B][X]3 (IB) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation or at least one group 1 metal cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
As the skilled person will appreciate, [A] may comprise Cs+.
Usually, [B] comprises Pb2+ or Sn2+. More typically, [B] comprises Pb2+.
Typically, [X] comprises a halide anion or a plurality of different halide anions. Usually, [X] comprises Γ.
In some embodiments, [X] is two or more different anions, for instance, two or more different halide anions. For instance, [X] may comprise Γ and F", Γ and Br" or Γ and CI".
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbI3 or CsSnI3. For instance, the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI3.
Alternatively, the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI2Cl, CsPbICl2, CsPbI2F, CsPbIF2, CsPbI2Br, CsPbIBr2, CsSnI2Cl, CsSnICl2, CsSnI2F, CsSnIF2, CsSnI2Br or CsSnIBr2. For instance, the perovskite compound of formula (IB) may be CsPbI2Cl or CsPbICl2. Typically, the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbICl2.
In the perovskite compound of formula (IB): [X] may be one, two or more different anions as defined herein, for instance, one, two or more different anions as defined herein for the first perovskite; [A] usually comprises an organic cation as defined herein, as above for the first perovskite; and [B] typically comprises a metal cation as defined herein. The metal cation may be defined as hereinbefore for the first perovskite.
In some embodiments, the perovskite of the charge transporting material may be a perovskite as defined for the first perovskite hereinabove. Again, the second perovskite may be the same as or different from the first perovskite, typically it is different.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Thus, when the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, the layer usually further comprises said charge transporting material, within pores of the porous dielectric scaffold material.
Typically, the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; said semiconductor; and said charge transporting material.
The term "photoactive layer", as used herein, refers to a layer in the optoelectronic device which comprises a material that (i) absorbs light, which may then generate free charge
carriers; or (ii) accepts charge, both electrons and holes, which may subsequently recombine and emit light.
As would be understood by the skilled person when the material absorbs light, the energy of the photon is used to promote an electron to a higher energy state in the absorber. The photon energy is converted into electrical potential energy.
Usually, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor as defined herein and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein.
Alternatively, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor may be a p-type
semiconductor as defined herein and the charge transporting material may be an electron transporting material as defined herein.
As a further alternatively, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor may be an intrinsic semiconductor as defined herein and the charge transport material is a hole transport material as defined herein or an electron transport material as defined herein.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor is a perovskite as defined herein.
Usually, the photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
More typically, the photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said charge transporting material disposed on a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein the device further comprises said charge transporting material disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
Often, the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 100 nm to 3000 nm. Usually, the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 100 nm to 1000 nm
As used herein, the term "thickness" refers to the average thickness of a component of an optoelectronic device.
In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: said photoactive layer.
The first and second electrodes are an anode and a cathode, and usually one or both of the anode and cathode is transparent to allow the ingress of light. The choice of the first and second electrodes of the optoelectronic devices of the present invention may depend on the structure type. Typically, the n-type layer is deposited onto a tin oxide, more typically onto a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) anode, which is usually a transparent or semi-transparent material. Thus, the first electrode is usually transparent or semi-transparent and typically comprises FTO. Usually, the thickness of the first electrode is from 200 nm to 600 nm, more usually, from 300 to 500 nm. For instance the thickness may be 400 nm. Typically, FTO is coated onto a glass sheet. Usually, the second electrode comprises a high work function metal, for instance gold, silver, nickel, palladium or platinum, and typically silver. Usually, the thickness of the second electrode is from 50 nm to 250 nm, more usually from 100 nm to 200 nm. For instance, the thickness of the second electrode may be 150 nm.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 200 nm to 1000 nm, for instance the thickness may be from 400 nm to 800 nm. Often, thickness of the photoactive layer is from 400 nm to 600 nm. Usually the thickness is about 500 nm.
Usually, the optoelectronic device of the invention comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes:
(a) said photoactive layer; and
(b) a compact layer comprising a metal oxide.
As the skilled person will appreciate, when the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor (for instance an n-type perovskite, or a perovskite which acts as an n-type, electron-transporting material when photo-doped) an n-type compact layer should also be used. On the other hand, when the semiconductor is p-type, the compact layer should be p-
type too. Examples of p-type semiconductors that can be used in the compact layer include oxides of nickel, vanadium, copper or molybdenum. Additionally, p-type organic hole- conductors may also be useful as p-type compact layers. Examples of such p-type hole- conductors are PEDO:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly-(styrenesulfonate)), and polyanilene. Examples of n-type semiconductors that can be used in the compact layer include oxides of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, neodymium, palladium and cadmium, or a mixture thereof, and sulphides of zinc or cadmium, or mixtures thereof.
Often, the semiconductor used in the compact layer will be different from said semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
Alternatively, the semiconductor used in the compact layer may be the same as said semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV. The compact layer may, for instance, comprise said perovskite.
Often, the compact layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal sulphide.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the compact layer comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, neodymium, palladium or cadmium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium.
Typically, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the compact layer comprises
Ti02.
Usually, the compact layer has a thickness of from 20 nm to 200 nm, typically a thickness of about 100 nm.
Alternatively, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the compact layer may comprise a p-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of nickel, vanadium or copper.
In one embodiment, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, the compact layer may comprise a semiconductor comprising an oxide of molybdenum or tungsten.
In one embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention further comprises an additional layer, disposed between the compact layer and the photoactive layer, which additional layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide which is the same as or different from the metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide employed in the compact layer.
Typically, the additional layer comprises alumina, magnesium oxide, cadmium sulphide, silicon dioxide, or yttrium oxide.
Usually, the optoelectronic device of the invention is selected from a photovoltaic device; a photodiode; a phototransistor; a photomultiplier; a photo resistor; a photo detector; a light-sensitive detector; solid-state triode; a battery electrode; a light-emitting device; a light-emitting diode; a transistor; a solar cell; a laser; and a diode injection laser.
In a preferred embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device.
Usually, the optoelectronic device of the invention is a solar cell.
In an alternative embodiment, the optoelectronic device of the invention is a light- emitting device, for instance a light-emitting diode.
In one embodiment the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer; wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising (i) said porous dielectric scaffold material and (ii) said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and
[X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
The organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+ and cations of formula (R5 H3) , as defined above. The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
The organic cations may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
as defined above. The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
[X] may also be as further defined herein. Usually, [X] is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
The porous dielectric scaffold material and the charge transporting material may also be as further defined herein.
In a further embodiment the optoelectronic device of the invention is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a compact layer comprising a metal oxide; and a photoactive layer; wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and
said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and
[X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
The organic and metal cations may be as further defined hereinbefore. Thus the organic cations may be selected from cations of formula (RiR2R3R4N)+ and cations of formula (R5 H3)+, as defined above. The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
The organic cations may, for instance, be selected from cations of formula
as defined above. The metal cations may be selected from divalent metal cations. For instance, the metal cations may be selected from Ca2+, Sr2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Yb2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the metal cation is Sn2+ or Pb2+.
[X] may also be as further defined herein. Usually, [X] is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. More typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions.
The porous dielectric scaffold material and the hole transporting material may also be as further defined herein, as may be the metal oxide in the compact layer.
Usually, the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein.
Alternatively, the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor and the charge
transporting material is an electron transporting material as defined herein.
The fundamental losses in a solar cell can be quantified as the difference in energy between the open-circuit voltage and the band-gap of the absorber, which may be considered the loss in potential. The theoretical maximum open-circuit voltage can be estimated as a function of band gap following the Schokley-Quasar treatment, and for a material with a band gap of 1.55eV the maximum possible open-circuit voltage under full sun illumination is 1.3 V, giving a minimum loss-in-potential 0.25eV.
Often, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, x is less than or equal to 0.6 eV, wherein: x is equal to A-B, wherein:
A is the optical band gap of said thin-film semiconductor; and
B is the open-circuit voltage generated by the optoelectronic device under standard AM1.5G 100 mWcm"2 solar illumination.
Usually, in the optoelectronic device of the invention, x is less than or equal to 0.45eV.
The invention also provides the use of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; in an optoelectronic device.
Often, in the use of the invention, the use is of: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which is in contact with the scaffold material, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
Typically, the use is of: (i) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (ii) said semiconductor, in contact with the scaffold material; and (iii) a charge transporting material; as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
The invention also provides the use of a layer comprising: (i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device.
Typically, the layer further comprises a charge transporting material.
In the uses of the invention the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein; and/orthe semiconductor may be as further defined herein. The charge transporting material may also be as further defined herein.
Usually, the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
Alternatively, in one embodiment, in the uses of the invention, the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor.
Typically, the semiconductor comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
In some embodiments, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
Additionally or alternatively, in some embodiments, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
In another embodiment, in the uses of the invention, the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor.
Often, the semiconductor comprises an intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
Typically, in the uses of the invention, the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Thus, usually, the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said porous dielectric scaffold material.
Also, the charge transporting material, where present, is typically disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Often, the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined herein. Alternatively, the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material as defined herein.
In one embodiment, in the uses of the invention, (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate; and/or (b) the semiconductor is a perovskite.
For instance, in the uses of the invention, (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material is as further defined herein; and/or (b) the semiconductor is as further defined herein.
Typically, in the uses of the invention, the optoelectronic device is a photovoltaic device. Usually, the optoelectronic device is a solar cell.
Alternatively, in the uses of the invention, the optoelectronic device may be a light- emitting device, for instance a light-emitting diode.
The invention also provides a photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising: (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
Typically, in the photoactive layer of the invention, the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material. Thus, usually, the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said porous dielectric scaffold material. Also, the charge transporting material is typically disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
Usually, in the photoactive layer of the invention, the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor. Typically, the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite,
Alternatively, in the photoactive layer of the invention, the semiconductor may be a p- type semiconductor. Often, the semiconductor comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite,
As a further alternative, in the photoactive layer of the invention, the semiconductor may be an intrinsic semiconductor. Usually, the semiconductor comprises an intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite
In some embodiments, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium or palladium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
Additionally or alternatively, in some embodiments, in the photoactive layer, the semiconductor comprises an oxide of nickel, vanadium, lead, copper or molybdenum, provided of course that the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV.
Typically, in the photoactive layer of the invention: (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate; (b) the semiconductor is a perovskite; and/or (c) the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material.
For instance, (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein; (b) the semiconductor may be as further defined herein; and/or (c) the charge transporting material may be as further defined herein.
Alternatively, often, in the photoactive layer of the invention: (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate; (b) the semiconductor is a perovskite; and/or (c) the charge transporting material is an electron conductor.
For instance, (a) the porous dielectric scaffold material may be as further defined herein; (b) the semiconductor is as further defined herein; and/or (c) the charge transporting material is as further defined herein.
The porous dielectric scaffold material used in the devices of the invention can be produced by a process comprising: (i) washing a first dispersion of a dielectric material; and (ii) mixing the washed dispersion with a solution comprising a pore-forming agent which is a combustible or dissolvable organic compound. The pore-forming agent is removed later in the process by burning the agent off or by selectively dissolving it using an appropriate solvent. Any suitable pore-forming agent may be used. The pore-forming agent may be a carbohydrate, for instance a polysaccharide, or a derivative thereof. Typically, ethyl cellulose is used as the pore-forming agent.
The term "carbohydrate" refers to an organic compound consisting of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen to oxygen atom ratio is usually 2: 1. It is to be understood that the term carbohydrate encompasses monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Carbohydrate derivatives are typically carbohydrates comprising additional substituents. Usually the substituents are other than hydroxyl groups. When an carbohydrate is substituted it typically bears one or more substituents selected from substituted or
unsubstituted C1-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, cyano, amino, C1-C10 alkylamino, di(Ci-Cio)alkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, arylalkylamino, amido, acylamido, oxo, halo, carboxy, ester, acyl, acyloxy, C1-C20 alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, sulfonic acid, sulfhydryl (i.e. thiol, -SH), Ci-Cio alkylthio, arylthio, sulfonyl, phosphoric acid, phosphate ester, phosphonic acid and phosphonate ester. Examples of substituted alkyl groups include haloalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl and alkaryl groups. The term alkaryl, as used herein, pertains to a C1-C20 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom has been replaced with an aryl group. Examples of such groups include, but are not limited to, benzyl (phenylmethyl, PhCH2-), benzhydryl (Ph2CH-), trityl (triphenylmethyl, Ph3C-), phenethyl (phenylethyl, Ph-CH2CH2-), styryl (Ph-CH=CH-), cinnamyl
(Ph-CH=CH-CH2-). In a carbohydrate derivative, the substituent on the carbohydrate may, for instance, be a Ci-C6 alkyl, wherein a Ci-C6 alkyl is as defined herein above. Often the substituents are subsituents on the hydroxyl group of the carbohydrate. Typically, the pore- forming agent used in the step of mixing the dispersion with a solution is a carbohydrate or a derivative thereof, more typically a carbohydrate derivative. Thus, for instance, the carbohydrate or a derivative thereof is ethyl cellulose.
Usually, the first dispersion used in the process for producing the porous dielectric scaffold material is a solution comprising an electrolyte and water. Typically, the first dispersion is about 10 wt% of the electrolyte in water. For some dielectrics, for instance, silica, the process further comprises a step of forming the electrolyte from a precursor material. For instance, when the dielectric is silica, the process may further comprises a step of forming the electrolyte from a silicate, such as tetraethyl orthosilicate. Usually the precursor material is added to water. Typically, the first dispersion is produced by mixing an alcohol, such as ethanol, with water, then adding a base, such as ammonium hydroxide, in water and the precursor material. When the dielectric is silica, usually from 2 to 3 ml of deionized water are added to from 55 to 65 ml of absolute ethanol. Typically, about 2.52 ml of deionized water are added to about 59.2 ml of absolute ethanol.
This mixture is usually then stirred vigorously. Then, typically, from 0.4 to 0.6 ml of the base in water are added along with from 5 to 10 ml of the precursor. More typically, about 0.47 ml of ammonium hydroxide 28% in water are added along with about 7.81 ml of the precursor.
In the step of washing the first dispersion of a dielectric material often the first dispersion is centrifuged at from 6500 to 8500 rpm, usually at about 7500 rpm. Usually, the first dispersion is centrifuged for from 2 to 10 hours, typically for about 6 hours. The centrifuged dispersion is then usually redispersed in an alcohol, such as absolute ethanol. Often, the centrifuged dispersion is redispersed in an alcohol with an ultrasonic probe. The ultrasonic probe is usually operated for a total sonication time of from 3 minutes to 7 minutes, often about 5 minutes. Typically, the sonication is carried out in cycles. Usually, sonication is carried out in cycles of approximately 2 seconds on and approximately 2 seconds off. The step of washing the first dispersion is often repeated two, three or four times, typically three times.
Usually, in the step of mixing the washed dispersion with a solution comprising a carbohydrate or a derivative thereof, the solution comprises a solvent for the carbohydrate or a derivative thereof. For instance, when the carbohydrate or a derivative thereof is ethyl cellulose, the solvent may be a-terpineol.
Typically, the amount of the product from the step of washing the first dispersion used in the step of mixing the washed dispersion with the solution is equivalent to using from 0.5 to 1.5 g of the dielectric, for instance, about 1 g of the dielectric. When the carbohydrate or derivative thereof is ethyl cellulose, usually, a mix of different grades of ethyl cellulose are used. Typically a ratio of approximately 50:50 of 10 cP:46 cP of ethyl cellulose is used. Usually, from 4 to 6 g of the carbohydrate or derivative is used. More usually, about 5 g of the carbohydrate or derivative is used. Typically the amount of solvent used is from 3 to 3.5 g, for instance 3.33 g.
Typically, in the step of mixing the washed dispersion with a solution comprising a carbohydrate or a derivative thereof, each component is added in turn. Usually, after each component is added, the mixture is stirred for from 1 to 3 minutes, for instance, for 2 minutes. Often, after the mixture is stirred, it is sonicated with an ultrasonic probe for a total sonication time of from 30 to 90 seconds, often about 1 minute. Typically, the sonication is carried out in cycles. Usually, sonication is carried out in cycles of approximately 2 seconds on and approximately 2 seconds off.
Usually, in the step of mixing the washed dispersion with a solution comprising a carbohydrate or a derivative thereof, after the components have been mixed, the resulting mixture is introduced into a rotary evaporator. The rotary evaporator is typically used to
remove any excess alcohol, such as ethanol, and/or to achieve a thickness of solution appropriate for spin coating, doctor blading or screen printing the material.
The perovskite used in the devices of the invention, can be produced by a process comprising mixing:
(a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a first anion; with
(b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second cations are as defined herein; and the first and second anions may be the same or different anions.
The perovskites which comprise at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions, may, for instance, be produced by a process comprising mixing:
(a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a first anion; with
(b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the first and second anions may be the same or different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. Typically, the first and second anions are different anions. More typically, the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions.
The perovskite produced by the process may comprise further cations or further anions. For example, the perovskite may comprise two, three or four different cations, or two, three of four different anions. The process for producing the perovskite may therefore comprise mixing further compounds comprising a further cation or a further anion.
Additionally or alternatively, the process for producing the perovskite may comprise mixing (a) and (b) with: (c) a third compound comprising (i) the first cation and (ii) the second anion; or (d) a fourth compound comprising (i) the second cation and (ii) the first anion.
Typically, in the process for producing the perovskite, the second cation in the mixed- anion perovskite is a metal cation. More typically, the second cation is a divalent metal
2 I cation. For instance, the first cation may be selected from Ca , Sr , Cd , Cu , Ni , Mn , Fe2+, Co2+, Pd2+, Ge2+, Sn2+, Pb2+, Sn2+, Y2+ and Eu2+. Usually, the second cation is selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+.
Often, in the process for producing the perovskite, the first cation in the mixed-anion perovskite is an organic cation.
Usually, the organic cation has the formula (RiR2R3R4N)+, wherein:
Ri is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
R2 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
R3 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and
R4 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl.
Mainly, in the organic cation, Ri is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, R3 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and R4 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl. For instance Ri may be hydrogen or methyl, R2 may be hydrogen or methyl, R3 may be hydrogen or methyl, and R4 may be hydrogen or methyl.
Alternatively, the organic cation may have the formula (R5 H3)+, wherein: R5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl. For instance, R5 may be methyl or ethyl. Typically, R5 is methyl.
In some embodiments, the organic cation has the formula (R5R6N=CH- R7R8)+, wherein: R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; 5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; R7 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and R8 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or
unsubstituted or substituted aryl. The organic cation may, for instance, be (R5R6N=CH- R7R8)+, wherein: R5, R5, R7 and R8 are independently selected from hydrogen, unsubstituted
or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, and unsubstituted or substituted aryl. For instance, the organic cation may be (H2N=CH- H2)+.
In the process for producing the perovskite, the perovskite is usually a mixed-halide perovskite, wherein said two or more different anions are two or more different halide anions.
Typically, in the process for producing the perovskite, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and
[X] is said two or more different anions; and the process comprises mixing:
(a) a first compound comprising (i) a metal cation and (ii) a first anion; with
(b) a second compound comprising (i) an organic cation and (ii) a second anion,: wherein: the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions or chalcogenide anions.
Alternatively the process may comprising (1) treating: (a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a first anion; with (b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a first anion, to produce a first product, wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the first anion is selected from halide anions and
chalcogenide anions; and (2) treating (a) a first compound comprising (i) a first cation and (ii) a second anion; with (b) a second compound comprising (i) a second cation and (ii) a second anion, to produce a second product, wherein: the first and second cations are as herein defined; and the second anion is selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
Usually, the first and second anions are different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions. Typically, the first and second anions are different anions selected from
halide anions. The process usually further comprises treating a first amount of the first product with a second amount of the second product, wherein the first and second amounts may be the same or different.
The perovskite of the formula (I) may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different metal cations, typically one or two different metal cations. The perovskite of the formula (I), may, for instance, comprise one, two, three or four different organic cations, typically one or two different organic cations. The perovskite of the formula (I), may, for instance, comprise two, three or four different anions, typically two or three different anions. The process may, therefore, comprising mixing further compounds comprising a cation and an anion.
Typically, [X] is two or more different halide anions. The first and second anions are thus typically halide anions. Alternatively [X] may be three different halide ions. Thus the process may comprise mixing a third compound with the first and second compound, wherein the third compound comprises (i) a cation and (ii) a third halide anion, where the third anion is a different halide anion from the first and second halide anions.
Often, in the process for producing the perovskite, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (IA):
AB[X]3 (IA) wherein:
A is an organic cation;
B is a metal cation; and
[X] is said two or more different anions, the process comprises mixing:
(a) a first compound comprising (i) a metal cation and (ii) a first halide anion; with
(b) a second compound comprising (i) an organic cation and (ii) a second halide anion: wherein:
the first and second halide anions are different halide anions.
Usually, [X] is two or more different halide anions. Preferably, [X] is two or three different halide anions. More preferably, [X] is two different halide anions. In another embodiment [X] is three different halide anions.
Typically, in the process for producing the perovskite, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (II):
ABX3-yX'y (II) wherein:
A is an organic cation;
B is a metal cation;
X is a first halide anion;
X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and y is from 0.05 to 2.95; and the process comprises mixing:
(a) a first compound comprising (i) a metal cation and (ii) X; with
(b) a second compound comprising (i) an organic cation and (ii) X' : wherein the ratio of X to X' in the mixture is equal to (3-y):y.
In order to achieve said ratio of X to X' equal to (3-y):y, the process may comprise mixing a further compound with the first and second compounds. For example, the process may comprise mixing a third compound with the first and second compounds, wherein the third compound comprises (i) the metal cation and (ii) X' . Alternative, the process may comprising mixing a third compound with the first and second compounds, wherein the third compound comprises (i) the organic cation and (ii) X.
Usually, y is from 0.5 to 2.5, for instance from 0.75 to 2.25. Typically, y is from 1 to
2.
Typically, in the process for producing the perovskite, the first compound is BX2 and the second compound is AX'.
Often the second compound is produce by reacting a compound of the formula (R5 H2), wherein: R5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl, with a compound of formula HX'. Typically, R5 may be methyl or ethyl, often R5 is methyl.
Usually, the compound of formula (R5 H2) and the compound of formula HX' are reacted in a 1 : 1 molar ratio. Often, the reaction takes place under nitrogen atmosphere and usually in anhydrous ethanol. Typically, the anhydrous ethanol is about 200 proof. More typically from 15 to 30 ml of the compound of formula (R5 H2) is reacted with about 15 to 15 ml of HX', usually under nitrogen atmosphere in from 50 to 150 ml anhydrous ethanol. The process may also comprise a step of recovering said mixed-anion perovskite. A rotary evaporator is often used to extract crystalline AX'.
Usually, the step of mixing the first and second compounds is a step of dissolving the first and second compounds in a solvent. The first and second compounds may be dissolved in a ratio of from 1 :20 to 20: 1, typically a ratio of 1 : 1. Typically the solvent is
dimethylformamide (DMF) or water. When the metal cation is Pb2+ the solvent is usually dimethylformamide. When the metal cation is Sn2+ the solvent is usually water. The use of DMF or water as the solvent is advantageous as these solvents are not very volatile.
Often, in the process for producing the perovskite, the perovskite is a perovskite selected from CH3 H3PbI3, CH3 H3PbBr3, CH3 H3PbCl3, CH3 H3PbF3, CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnBrI2, CH3 H3SnBrCl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnIBr2, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnClBr2, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. More often, the perovskite is a perovskite selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnBrI2, CH3 H3SnBrCl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnIBr2, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnClBr2, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. Typically, the perovskite is selected from
CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. More typically, the perovskite is selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2,
CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnF2I and CH3 H3SnF2Cl. Usually, the perovskite is selected
from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2, CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, and CH3 H3SnF2I.
In some embodiments, in the process for producing the mixed-anion perovskite, the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (Ila):
ABX3zX'3(1-z) (Ila) wherein:
A is an organic cation of the formula (R5R6N=CH- R7R8)+, wherein: (i) R5 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; (ii) Re is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; (iii) R7 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl; and (iv) R8 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted Ci-C20 alkyl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryl;
B is an metal cation selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+;
X is a first halide anion;
X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and z is greater than 0 and less than 1; and the process comprises
(1) treating: (a) a first compound comprising (i) the metal cation and (ii) X, with (b) a second compound comprising (i) the organic cation and (ii) X, to produce a first product;
(2) treating: (a) a first compound comprising (i) the metal cation and (ii) X', with (b) a second compound comprising (i) the organic cation and (ii) X', to produce a second product; and
(3) treating a first amount of the first product with a second amount of the second product, wherein the first and second amounts may be the same or different.
Usually z is from 0.05 to 0.95.
In the process for producing a mixed-anion perovskite, the perovskite may, for instance, have the formula
wherein z is as defined hereinabove.
Other semiconductors used in the devices of the invention may be prepared using known synthetic techniques.
The photoactive layer of the invention, or the photoactive layer present in the optoelectronic device of the invention, may further comprise encapsulated metal
nanoparticles.
The process for producing an optoelectronic device is usually a process for producing a device selected from: a photovoltaic device; a photodiode; a phototransistor; a
photomultiplier; a photo resistor; a photo detector; a light-sensitive detector; solid-state triode; a battery electrode; a light-emitting device; a light-emitting diode; a transistor; a solar cell; a laser; and a diode injection laser. Typically, the optoelectronic device is a photovoltaic device. Alternatively, the optoelectronic device may be a light-emitting device.
The process for producing an optoelectronic device of the invention, wherein the optoelectronic device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer, which photoactive layer comprises a porous dielectric scaffold material and a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; is usually a process comprising:
(i) providing a first electrode;
(ii) depositing said photoactive layer; and
(iii) providing a second electrode.
As the skilled person will appreciate, the process of producing an optoelectronic device will vary depending on the optoelectronic device being made, and in particular depending upon the different components of the device. The process which is discussed below and exemplified is a process for producing an optoelectronic device which comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is a hole transporting
material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor, which semiconductor is a perovskite, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and (b) a compact layer comprising an n-type semiconductor. However, as the skilled person will appreciate, the same process may be used or adapted to produce other devices of the invention, having different components and different layer structures. These include, for instance, optoelectronic devices of the invention which comprise: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an electron transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor, which semiconductor is a perovskite; and (b) a compact layer comprising an-type semiconductor. Also, the process described herein can be used to produce optoelectronic devices comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which semiconductor is any suitable n-type
semiconductor, any suitable p-type semiconductor or any suitable intrinsic semiconductor, or, for instance, optoelectronic devices comprising a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an hole transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which semiconductor is any suitable n-type semiconductor; and (b) a compact layer comprising an n-type semiconductor, or, for instance, optoelectronic devices comprising a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: (a) a photoactive layer comprising: (i) a charge transporting material, which is an electron transporting material; (ii) a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and (iii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, which
semiconductor is any suitable p-type semiconductor; and (b) a compact layer comprising a p- type semiconductor.
The process for producing an optoelectronic device of the invention, wherein the optoelectronic device comprises: a first electrode;
a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes:
(a) said photoactive layer; and
(b) a compact layer comprising a metal oxide. is usually a process comprising:
(i) providing a first electrode;
(ii) depositing said photoactive layer;
(iii) depositing said compact layer; and
(iv) providing a second electrode.
The first and second electrodes are an anode and a cathode, one or both of which is transparent to allow the ingress of light. The choice of the first and second electrodes of the optoelectronic devices of the present invention may depend on the structure type. Typically, the n-type layer is deposited onto a tin oxide, more typically onto a fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) anode, which is usually a transparent or semi-transparent material. Thus, the first electrode is usually transparent or semi-transparent and typically comprises FTO. Usually, the thickness of the first electrode is from 200 nm to 600 nm, more usually, from 300 to 500 nm. For example the thickness may be 400 nm. Typically, FTO is coated onto a glass sheet. Often, the TFO coated glass sheets are etched with zinc powder and an acid to produce the required electrode pattern. Usually the acid is HCl. Often the concentration of the HCl is about 2 molar. Typically, the sheets are cleaned and then usually treated under oxygen plasma to remove any organic residues. Usually, the treatment under oxygen plasma is for less than or equal to 1 hour, typically about 5 minutes.
Usually, the second electrode comprises a high work function metal, for instance gold, silver, nickel, palladium or platinum, and typically silver. Usually, the thickness of the second electrode is from 50 nm to 250 nm, more usually from 100 nm to 200 nm. For example, the thickness of the second electrode may be 150 nm.
Usually, the compact layer of an semiconductor comprises an oxide of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, indium, neodymium, palladium or cadmium, or mixtures thereof, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium. Typically, the compact layer of a semiconductor comprises Ti02. Often, the compact layer is deposited on the first electrode.
The process for producing the photovoltaic device thus usually comprise a step of depositing a compact layer of an n-type semiconductor.
The step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor may, for instance, comprise depositing the compact layer of a semiconductor by aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition. Typically, the aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition comprises deposition of a solution comprising titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate), usually at a temperature of from 200 to 300°C, often at a temperature of about 250°C. Usually the solution comprises titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) and ethanol, typically in a ratio of from 1 :5 to 1 :20, more typically in a ratio of about 1 : 10.
Often, the step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor is a step of depositing a compact layer of a semiconductor of thickness from 50 nm to 200 nm, typically a thickness of about 100 nm.
The photoactive layer usually comprises: (a) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) said semiconductor; and (c) said charge transporting material. Typically, the step of depositing the photoactive layer comprises: (i) depositing the porous dielectric scaffold material; (ii) depositing the semiconductor; and (iii) depositing the charge transporting material. More typically, step of depositing the photoactive layer comprises: (i) depositing the porous dielectric scaffold material; then (ii) depositing the semiconductor; and then (iii) depositing the charge transporting material.
Mainly, the porous dielectric scaffold material is deposited on to the compact layer. Usually, the porous dielectric scaffold material is deposited on to the compact layer using a method selected from screen printing, doctor blade coating and spin-coating. As the skilled person will appreciate: (i) the method of screen printing usually requires the deposition to occur through a suitable mesh; (ii) if doctor blade coating is used, a suitable doctor blade height is usually required; and (iii) when spin-coating is used, a suitable spin speed is needed.
The porous dielectric scaffold material is often deposited with an thickness of between 100 to lOOOnm, typically 200 to 500nm, and more typically about 300 nm.
After the porous dielectric scaffold material has been deposited, the material is usually heated to from 400 to 500 °C, typically to about 450 °C. Often, the material is held at this temperature for from 15 to 45 minutes, usually for about 30 minutes. This dwelling step
is usually used in order to degrade and remove material from within the pores of the scaffold material. For instance, the dwelling step may be used to remove cellulose from the pores.
In the step of depositing the perovskite, said perovskite is a perovskite as described herein. The step of depositing the perovskite usually comprises depositing the perovskite on the porous dielectric scaffold material. Often, the step of depositing the perovskite comprises spin coating said perovskite. The spin coating usually occurs in air, typically at a speed of from 1000 to 2000 rpm, more typically at a speed of about 1500 rpm and/or often for a period of from 15 to 60 seconds, usually for about 30 seconds. The perovskite is usually placed in a solvent prior to the spin coating. Usually the solvent is DMF (dimethylformamide) and typically the volume of solution used id from 1 to 200 μΐ, more typically from 20 to 100 μΐ. The concentration of the solution is often of from 1 to 50 vol% perovskite, usually from 5 to 40 vol%. The solution may be, for instance, dispensed onto the porous dielectric scaffold material prior to said spin coating and left for a period of about 5 to 50 second, typically for about 20 seconds. After spin coating the perovskite is typically placed at a temperature of from 75 to 125°C, more typically a temperature of about 100°C. The perovskite is then usually left at this temperature for a period of at least 30 minutes, more usually a period of from 30 to 60 minutes. Often, the perovskite is left at this temperature for a period of about 45 minutes. Typically, the perovskite will change colour, for example from light yellow to dark brown. The colour change may be used to indicate the formation of the perovskite layer. Usually, at least some of the perovskite, once deposited, will be in the pores of the porous dielectric scaffold material.
Usually, the perovskite does not decompose when exposed to oxygen or moisture for a period of time equal to or greater than 10 minutes. Typically, the perovskite does not decompose when exposed to oxygen or moisture for a period of time equal to or greater than 24 hours.
Often the step of depositing the perovskite, may comprise depositing said perovskite and a single-anion perovskite, wherein said single anion perovskite comprises a first cation, a second cation and an anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions; wherein the first and second cations are as herein defined for said mixed-anion perovskite. For instance, the photoactive layer may comprise: CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbI3; CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbBr3; CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbI3; or CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbBr3.
Alternatively, the step of depositing the perovskite, may comprise depositing more than one perovskite, wherein each perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite, and wherein said mixed-anion perovskite is as herein defined. For instance, the photoactive layer may comprise two or three said perovskites. The photoactive layer may comprise two perovskites wherein both perovskites are mixed-anion perovskites. For instance, the photoactive layer may comprise: CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2; CH3 H3PbICl2 and CH3 H3PbBrI2; CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2; or CH3 H3PbBrCl2 and CH3 H3PbIBr2.
As a further alternative, the step of depositing a sensitizer comprising said perovskite, may comprise depositing at least one perovskite, for instance, at least one perovskite having the formula
The step of depositing a charge transporting material usually comprises depositing a hole transporting material that is a solid state hole transporting material or a liquid
electrolyte. The charge transporting material in the optoelectronic device of the invention may be any suitable p-type or hole-transporting, semiconducting material. The charge transporting material may comprise spiro-OMeTAD (2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p- methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene)), P3HT (poly(3-hexylthiophene)), PCPDTBT (Poly[2, l,3-benzothiadiazole-4,7-diyl[4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2, l-b:3,4- b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl]]), PVK (poly(N-vinylcarbazole)), HTM-TFSI (l-hexyl-3- methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide), Li-TFSI (lithium
bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide) or tBP (tert-butylpyridine). For instance, the charge transporting material may be HTM-TFSI or spiro-OMeTAD. Preferable, the charge transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD. Alternatively, the charge transporting material may be an inorganic charge transporter, for example the charge transporting material selected from CuNSC, Cul2 and Cu02.
Prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material, the charge transporting material is often dissolved in a solvent, typically chlorobenzene. Usually the concentration of cholorbenzene is from 150 to 225 mg/ml, more usually the concentration is about 180 mg/ml. Typically, the hole transporting material is dissolved in the solvent at a temperature of from 75 to 125°C, more typically at a temperature of about 100°C. Usually the charge transporting material is dissolved for a period of from 25 minutes to 60 minutes, more usually a period of about 30 minutes. An additive may be added to the charge transporting material. The
additive may be, for instance, tBP, Li-TFSi, an ionic liquid or an ionic liquid with a mixed halide(s).
Usually, the charge transporting material is spiro-OMeTAD. Often, tBP is also added to the charge transporting material prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material. For instance, tBP may be added in a volume to mass ratio of from 1 :20 to 1 :30 μΐ/mg tBP:spiro-OMeTAD. Typically, tBP may be added in a volume to mass ratio of about 1 :26 μΐ/mg tBP:spiro-OMeTAD. Additionally or alternatively, Li-TFSi may be added to the charge transporting material prior to the step of depositing a charge transporting material. For instance, Li-TFSi may be added at a ratio of from 1 :5 to 1 :20 μΐ/mg Li-TFSi: spiro-OMe TAD. Usually Li-TFSi may be added at a ratio of about 1 : 12 μΐ/mg Li-TFSi: spiro-OMeT AD.
The step of depositing a charge transporting material often comprises spin coating a solution comprising the charge transporting material onto the layer comprising said perovskite. Usually, prior to spin coating, a small quantity of the solution comprising the charge transporting material is deposited onto the layer comprising said perovskite. The small quantity is usually from 5 to 100 μΐ, more usually from 20 to 70 μΐ. The solution comprising the charge transporting material is typically left for a period of at least 5 seconds, more typically a period of from 5 to 60 seconds, prior to spin coating. For instance, the solution comprising the charge transporting material be left for a period of about 20 seconds prior to spin coating. The spin coating of the charge transporting material is usually carried out at from 500 to 3000 rpm, typically at about 1500 rpm. The spin coating is often carried our for from 10 to 40 seconds in air, more often for about 25 seconds.
The step of producing a second electrode usually comprises a step of depositing the second electrode on to the charge transporting material. Typically, the second electrode is an electrode comprising silver. Often, the step of producing a second electrode comprises placing a film comprising the hole transporting material in a thermal evaporator. Usually, the step of producing a second electrode comprises deposition of the second electrode through a shadow mask under a high vacuum. Typically, the vacuum is about 10"6 mBar. The second electrode may, for example, be an electrode of a thickness from 100 to 200 nm. Typically, the second electrode is an electrode of a thickness from 150 nm.
Typically, the distance between the second electrode and the porous dielectric scaffold material is from is from 50 nm to 400 nm, more typically from 150 nm to 250 nm.
Often, the distance between the second electrode and the porous dielectric scaffold material is around 200 nm.
Often, the process for producing an the optoelectronic device of the invention is a process for producing a photovoltaic device, wherein the AM1.5G lOOmWcm"2 power conversion efficiency of the photovoltaic device is equal to or greater than 7.3 %. Typically, the AM1.5G lOOmWcm"2 power conversion efficiency is equal to or greater than 11.5 %.
Typically, the process for producing an the optoelectronic device of the invention is a process for producing a photovoltaic device, wherein the photocurrent of the photovoltaic device is equal to or greater than 15 mAcm"2. More typically, the photocurrent is equal to or greater than 20 mAcm"2.
The invention is further described in the Examples which follow.
EXAMPLES
Experimental description:
1. Synthesis of organometal halide perovskites:
1.1. Preparation of methylammonium iodide precursor
Methylamine (CH3 H2) solution 33 wt. % in absolute ethanol (Sigma-Aldrich) was reacted with hydriodic acid 57 wt. % in water (Sigma-Aldrich) at 1 : 1 molar ratio under nitrogen atmosphere in anhydrous ethanol 200 proof (Sigma-Aldrich). Typical quantities were 24 ml methylamine, 10 ml hydroiodic acid and 100 ml ethanol. Crystallisation of methylammonium iodide (CHNH3I) was achieved using a rotary evaporator a white coloured precipitate was formed indicating successful crystallisation.
The methylamine can be substituted for other amines, such as ethylamine, n- butylamine, tert-butylamine, octylamine etc. in order to alter the subsequent perovskite properties. In addition, the hydriodic acid can be substituted with other acids to form different perovskites, such as hydrochloric acid.
1.2. Preparation of methylammonium iodide lead (II) chloride (CH3NH3PDCI2I) perovskite solution
Methylammonium iodide (CHNH3I) precipitate and lead (II) chloride (Sigma- Aldrich) was dissolved in dimethylformamide (C3H7NO) (Sigma- Aldrich) at 1 : 1 molar ratio at 20 vol. %.
For making different perovskites, different precursors, such as different
lead(II)halides or indeed different metals halides all together, such as Sn iodide.
1.3. Generalising the organometal halide perovskite structure
The perovskite structure is defined as ABX3, where A = cation (0,0,0) - ammonium ion, B = cation (½, ½, ½) - divalent metal ion, and X = anion (½, ½, 0) - halogen ion. The table below indicates possible mixed-anion peroskites.
Fixing: [A] = Methylammonium, [B] = Pb, varying [X] = any halogen
Perovskite Methylammonium-[X] Lead halide (Pb[X]2)
CH3 H3PbBr3 CH3 H3Br PbBr2
CH3 H3PbBrI2 CH3 H3Br Pbl2
CH3 H3PbBrCI2 CH3 H3Br PbCl2
CH3 H3PbIBr2 CH3 H3I PbBr2
CH3 H3PbI3 CH3 H3I Pbl2
CH3 H3PbICl2 CH3 H3I PbCl2
CH3 H3PbCIBr2 CH3 H3C1 PbBr2
CH3 H3PbI2Cl CH3 H3C1 Pbl2
CH3 H3PbCl3 CH3 H3C1 PbCl2
Fixing: [A] = Methylammonium, [B] = Sn, varying [X] = any halogen
[A] may be varied using different organic elements, for example as in Liang et al., U.S. Patent 5,882,548, (1999) and Mitzi et al., U.S. Patent 6,429,318, (2002).
Blended perovskit
Perovksite 1 Perovskite 2 Outcome
CH3 H3PbICl2 CH3 H3PbIBr2 Red
CH3 H3PbICl2 CH3 H3PbBrI2 Yellow
CH3 H3PbICl2 CH3 H3PbI3 Dark brown
CH3 H3PbICl2 CH3 H3PbBr3 Yellow
Perovksite 1 Perovskite 2 Outcome
CH3 H3PbBrCl2 CH3 H3PbIBr2 Yellow
CH3 H3PbBrCl2 CH3 H3PbBrI2 Yellow
CH3 H3PbBrCl2 CH3 H3PbI3 Brown
CH3 H3PbBrCl2 CH3 H3PbBr3 Yellow
1.5 Stability of mixed-halide perovskites against single-halide perovskites
The inventors have found that photovoltaic devices comprising a mixed-halide perovskite do absorb light and operate as solar cells. When fabricating films from the single halide perovskites in ambient conditions. The perovskites form, but quickly bleach in colour. This bleaching is likely to be due to the adsorption of water on to the perovskite surface, which is known to bleach the materials. When the complete solar cells are constructed in ambient conditions using these single hailde perovskites, they perform very poorly with full sun light power conversion efficiencies of under 1%. In contrast, the mixed halide perovskites can be processed in air, and show negligible colour bleaching during the device fabrication process. The complete solar cell incorporating the mixed halide perovskites perform exceptionally well in ambient conditions, with full sun power conversion efficiency of over 10%.
1.6 Preparation of perovskites comprising a formamidinium cation
Formamidinium iodide (FOI) and formamidinium bromide (FOBr) were synthesised by reacting a 0.5M molar solution of formamidinium acetate in ethanol with a 3x molar excess of hydroiodic acid (for FOI) or hydrobromic acid (for FOBr). The acid was added dropwise whilst stirring at room temperature, then left stirring for another 10 minutes. Upon drying at 100°C, a yellow-white powder is formed, which is then dried overnight in a vacuum oven before use. To form FOPbI3 and FOPbBr3 precursor solutions, FOI and Pbl2 or FOBr
and PbBr2 were dissolved in anhydrous Ν,Ν-dimethylformamide in a 1 : 1 molar ratio, 0.88 millimoles of each per ml, to give 0.88M perovskite solutions. To form the FOPbl3ZBr3(i-Z) perovskite precursors, mixtures were made of the FOPbI3 and FOPbBr3 0.88M solutions in the required ratios, where z ranges from 0 to 1.
Films for characterisation or device fabrication were spin-coated in a nitrogen-filled glovebox, and annealed at 170°C for 25 minutes in the nitrogen atmosphere.
2. Insulating mesoporous paste:
2.1 : AI2O3 paste:
Aluminum oxide dispersion was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (10%wt in water) and was washed in the following manner: it was centrifuged at 7500 rpm for 6h, and redispersed in Absolute Ethanol (Fisher Chemicals) with an ultrasonic probe; which was operated for a total sonication time of 5 minutes, cycling 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off. This process was repeated 3 times.
For every 10 g of the original dispersion (lg total A1203) the following was added: 3.33 g of a-terpineol and 5g of a 50:50 mix of ethyl-cellulose 10 cP and 46 cP purchased from Sigma Aldrich in ethanol, 10% by weight. After the addition of each component, the mix was stirred for 2 minutes and sonicated with the ultrasonic probe for 1 minute of sonication, using a 2 seconds on 2 seconds off cycle. Finally, the resulting mixture was introduced in a Rotavapor to remove excess ethanol and achieve the required thickness when doctor blading, spin-coating or screen printing.
2.2 S1O2 paste:
Si02 particles were synthesized utilizing the following procedure (see G. H. Bogush, M. A. Tracy, C. F. Zukoski, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 1988, 104, 95.):
2.52 ml of deionized water were added into 59.2 ml of absolute ethanol (Fisher Chemicals). This mixture was then stirred violently for the sequential addition of the following reactives: 0.47 ml of Ammonium Hydroxide 28% in water (Sigma Aldrich) and 7.81 ml of Tetraethyl Orthosilicate (TEOS) 98% (Sigma Aldrich). The mixture was then stirred for 18 hours to allow the reaction to complete.
The silica dispersion was then washed following the same washing procedure as outlined previously for the A1203 paste (Example 2.1).
The amount of silica was then calculated assuming that all the TEOS reacts. In our case, 2.1 g of Si02 was the result of the calculation. For every lg of calculated Si02 the following were added: 5.38 g of anhydrous terpineol (Sigma Aldrich) and 8g of a 50:50 mix of ethyl-cellulose 5-15 mPa.s and 30-70 mPa.s purchased from Sigma Aldrich in ethanol, 10% by weight. After the addition of each component, the mix was stirred for 2 minutes and sonicated with the ultrasonic probe for 1 minute of sonication, using a 2 seconds on 2 seconds off cycle.
3. Cleaning and etching of the electrodes:
The perovskite solar cells used and presented in these examples were fabricated as follows: Fluorine doped tin oxide (F:Sn02/ FTO) coated glass sheets (TEC 15, 15 Ω/square, Pilkington USA) were etched with zinc powder and HCl (2 M) to give the required electrode pattern. The sheets were subsequently cleaned with soap (2% Hellemanex in water), distilled water, acetone, ethanol and finally treated under oxygen plasma for 5 minutes to remove any organic residues.
4. Deposition of the compact Ti02 layer:
The patterned FTO sheets were then coated with a compact layer of Ti02 (100 nm) by aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition of a titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) ethanol solution (1 : 10 titanium diisopropoxide bis(acetylacetonate) to ethanol volume ratio) at 250°C using air as the carrier gas (see Kavan, L. and Gratzel, M., Highly efficient semiconducting Ti02 photoelectrodes prepared by aerosol pyrolysis, Electrochim. Acta 40, 643 (1995);
Snaith, H. J. and Gratzel, M., The Role of a "Schottky Barrier" at an Electron-Collection Electrode in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Adv. Mater. 18, 1910 (2006)).
5 . Deposition of the mesoporous insulating metal oxide scaffold:
The insulating metal oxide paste (e.g. the A1203 paste) was applied on top of the compact metal oxide layer (typically compact Ti02), via screen printing, doctor blade coating
or spin-coating, through a suitable mesh, doctor blade height or spin-speed to create a film with an average thickness of between 100 to lOOOnm, preferably 200 to 500nm, and most preferably 300 nm. The films were subsequently heated to 450 degrees Celsius and held there for 30 minutes in order to degrade and remove the cellulose, and the cooled ready for subsequent perovskite solution deposition.
6. Deposition of the perovskite precursor solution and formation of the mesoporous perovskite semiconducting electrode
A small volume, between 20 to 100 μΐ of the solution of the perovskite precursor solution in DMF (methylammonium iodide lead (II) chloride (CH3 H3PbCl2l)) at a volume concentration of between 5 to 40vol% was dispensed onto each preprepared mesoporous electrode film and left for 20 s before spin-coating at 1500 rpm for 30 s in air. The coated films were then placed on a hot plate set at 100 degrees Celsius and left for 45 minutes at this temperature in air, prior to cooling. During the drying procedure at 100 degrees, the coated electrode changed colour from light yellow to dark brown, indicating the formation of the desired perovskite film with the semiconducting properties.
7 . Hole-transporter deposition and device assembly
The hole transporting material used was spiro-OMeTAD (Lumtec, Taiwan), which was dissolved in chlorobenzene at a typical concentration of 180 mg/ml. After fully dissolving the spiro-OMeTAD at 100°C for 30 minutes the solution was cooled and tertbutyl pyridine (tBP) was added directly to the solution with a volume to mass ratio of 1 :26 μΐ/mg /BP:spiro-MeOTAD. Lithium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amine salt (Li-TFSI) ionic dopant was pre-dissolved in acetonitrile at 170 mg/ml, then added to the hole-transporter solution at 1 : 12 μΐ/mg of Li-TFSI solution:spiro-MeOTAD. A small quantity (20 to 70 μΐ) of the spiro- OMeTAD solution was dispensed onto each perovskite coated mesoporous film and left for 20 s before spin-coating at 1500 rpm for 30 s in air. The films were then placed in a thermal evaporator where 200 nm thick silver electrodes were deposited through a shadow mask under high vacuum (10 6 mBar).
8. Fabrication of devices comprising FOPbl3ZBr3(i-z)
Devices were fabricated on fluorine-doped tin oxide coated glass substrates. These were cleaned sequentially in hallmanex, acetone, propan-2-ol and oxygen plasma. A compact layer of Ti02 was deposited by spin-coating a mildly acidic solution of titanium isopropoxide in ethanol. This was dried at 150°C for 10 minutes. The Ti02 mesoporous layer was deposited by spin-coating at 2000rpm a 1 :7 dilution by weight of Dyesol 18 R-T paste in ethanol, forming a layer of ~150nm. The layers were then sintered in air at 500°C for 30 minutes. Upon cooling, perovskite precursors were spin-coated at 2000rpm in a nitrogen- filled glovebox, followed by annealing at 170°C for 25minutes in the nitrogen atmosphere. The hole-transport layer was deposited by spin-coating an 8 wt. % 2,2',7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di- /?methoxyphenylamine)9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) in chlorobenzene solution with added tert-butylpyridine (tBP) and lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (Li-TFSI). Devices were completed by evaporation of 60nm Au contacts.
9. Antimony sulphide sensitized and meso-superstructured solar cells
Devices comprising antimony sulphide were also fabricated. The device fabrication was the same as for the standard dye sensitized and perovskite meso-superstructured cells discussed above, except for the thickness of the mesoporous layer. The mesoporous layer was (i) ~ 1.5 microns for Ti02 and (ii) ~ 700nm for A1203. After sintering the mesoporous Ti02 or A1203 coated substrates (FTO/compact Ti02/mesoporous oxide) the substrates were put into a cold chemical bath and kept at 10 deg.C for 3 hours. The antimony sulphide was grown on the internal surface of the meosporous films within the chemical bath. After removing from the chemical bath, the substrates were rinsed in deionized (DI) water and annealed at 300 deg°C in inert atmosphere (nitrogen glove box) for 30 minutes, then allowed to cool in air. The hole transporter (P3HT, 15mg/ml in chlorobenzene) was dispensed on top of the antimony sulphide coated substrates and spin-coated at 1000 rpm for 45 seconds to form a dry film. Electrodes were then deposited under high vacuum via thermal evaporation to form a gold/silver 10/150 nm cathode. The resulting cells had the structure: FTO / compact Ti02 / mesoporous oxide (Ti02 or A1203) coated with antimony sulphide / P3HT / gold/silver. The cells were then tested after leaving in air overnight.
The chemical bath deposition was carried out as follows: 0.625 mg SbCl3 was dissolved in 2.5 ml acetone. 25 ml Na2S03 (1M) was then slowly added, with stirring. The
volume was then made up to 100 ml by adding cold DI water, and a few drops of HC1 were added, until the resulting pH was 3.0.
The results are shown in figures 13 and 14. Data for three devices are shown: (i) a "MSSCs" or meso-superstructured solar cell device, in which the mesoporous oxide comprises a Ti02 mesoporous single crystal electrode where the metal oxide paste was made using the following: 165mg Ti02 (assumed); 28uL acetic acid; 72uL water; 550mg terpineol; and 825mg cellulose (10% in EtOH); (ii) a " P" or dyesol device, in which the mesoporous oxide comprises Ti02 nanoparticles, the standard dyesol paste; and (iii) an alumina device, in which the mesoporous oxide comprises alumina as the porous dielectric scaffold material.
Experimental Results
The motivation of the present inventors has been to realize a solution processaible solar cell which overcomes the inherent issues with organic absorbers and disordered metal oxides. They have followed a similar approach to ETA solar cells, thus capitalizing on the inorganic absorber, but entirely eliminated the mesoprous n-type metal oxide. They have employed mesoporous alumina as an "insulating scaffold" upon which an organometal halide perovskite is coated as the absorber and n-type component. This is contacted with the molecular hole-conductor, (2,2(7,7(-tetrakis-(N,N-di-pmethoxyphenylamine)9,9(- spirobifluorene) (spiro-OMeTAD) (U. Bach et al, Nature 395, 583-585 (1998)) which completes the photoactive layer. The photoactive layer is sandwiched between a semi- transparent fluorine doped tin oxide (F:Sn02/FTO) and metal electrode to complete the device. A schematic illustration of a cross section of a device is shown in Figure 1, and sketches illustrating the different layers in the solar cell and components in the solar cell are shown in Figure 2 and 3. Upon photoexcitation, light is absorbed in the perovskite layer, generating charge carriers. Holes are transferred to the hole-transporter and carried out of the solar cell, while the electrons percolate through the perovskite film and are collected at the FTO electrode. The displacement of the holes to the hole-transporter, removes the "minority" carrier from the absorber and is key to enabling efficient operation. Record power conversion efficiencies of 10.9 % are demonstrated under simulated AMI .5 full sun light, representing the most efficient solid-state hybrid solar cell reported to date. A current voltage curve for such a solar cell is shown in Figure 4.
Absorber and thin film characterisation
The perovskite structure provides a framework to embody organic and inorganic components into a neat molecular composite, herein lie possibilities to manipulate material properties governed by the atomic orbitals of the constituent elements. By experimenting with the interplay between organic-inorganic elements at the molecular scale and controlling the size-tunable crystal framework cell it is possible to create new and interesting materials using rudimentary wet chemical methods. Indeed, seminal work by Era and Mitzi champion the layered perovskite based on organometal halides as worthy rivals to more established materials, demonstrating excellent performance as light-emitting diodes (H.D. Megaw, Nature 155, 484-485 (1945); M. Era, T. Tsutsui, S. Saito, Appl. Phys. Lett. 67, 2436-2438 (1995)) and transistors with mobilities competitive comparable with amorphous silicon (C. R. Kagan, D. B. Mitzi, C. D. Dimitrakopoulos, Science 286, 945-947 (1999)).
The specific perovskite the inventors introduce here is of mixed-halide form:
methylammonium iodide lead (II) chloride, (CH3NH3PbCl2l) which is processed from a precursor solution in Ν,Ν-Dimethylformamide as the solvent via spin-coating in ambient conditions. Unlike the single-halide lead perovskite absorbers previously reported in solar cells (A. Kojima, K. Teshima, Y. Shirai, T. Miyasaka, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 6050-6051 (2009); J-H Im, C-R Lee, J-W Lee, S-W Park, N-G Park, Nanoscale 3, 4088 - 4093 (2011)), this iodide-chloride mixed-halide perovskite is remarkably stable and easily processible in air. In Figure 5 the UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectra of the mixed halide perovskite in the solar cell composite demonstrates good light harvesting capabilities over the visible to near infrared spectrum. Also shown is the light absorption of the active layer of a complete solar cell sealed in a nitrogen atmosphere, during 1000 hours constant illumination under full sunlight. Negligible change in spectra is clearly illustrated by the inset, which shows the optical density of the film at 500 nm remaining around 1.8 throughout the entire
measurement period (OD 1.8 corresponds to 98.4% attenuation).
Solar cell fabrication
To construct the solar cells fluorine doped tin oxide (F:Sn02/FTO) is coated with a compact layer of Ti02 via spray-pyrolysis (L. Kavan, M. Gratzel, Electrochim. Acta 40, 643- 652 (1995)), which assures selective collection of electrons at the anode. The film is then
coated with a paste of alumina, A1203, nanoparticles and cellulose via screen printing, which is subsequently sintered at 500 °C to decompose and remove the cellulose, leaving a film of mesoporous A1203 with a porosity of approximately 70%. The perovskite precursor solution is coated within the porous alumina film via spin-coating. To elaborate upon this coating process, there has been extensive previous work investigating how solution-cast materials infiltrate into mesoporous oxides (H. J. Snaith et al., Nanotechnology 19, 424003 - 424015
(2008) ; T. Leijtens et al, ACS Nano 6, 1455-1462 (2012); J. Melas-Kyriazi et al., Adv. Energy. Mater. 1, 407 - 414 (2011); I-K. Ding et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436
(2009) ; A. Abrusci et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3051-3058 (2011)). If the concentration of the solution is low enough, and the solubility of the cast material high enough, the material will completely penetrate the pores as the solvent evaporates. The usual result is that the material forms a "wetting" layer upon the internal surface of the mesoporous film, and uniformly, but not completely, fills the pores throughout the thickness of the electrode. (H. J. Snaith et al, Nanotechnology 19, 424003 - 424015 (2008); T. Leijtens et al., ACS Nano 6, 1455-1462 (2012); J. Melas-Kyriazi et al., Adv. Energy. Mater. 1, 407 - 414 (2011); I-K. Ding et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009); A. Abrusci et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3051-3058 (2011)).) The degree of "pore-filling" is controlled by varying the solution concentration (J. Melas-Kyriazi et al, Adv. Energy. Mater. 1, 407 - 414 (2011); I-K. Ding et al, Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009); A. Abrusci et al., Energy Environ. Sci. 4, 3051-3058 (2011)). If the concentration of the casting solution is high, a "capping layer" will be formed on top of the mesoporous oxide in addition to a high degree of pore-filling. In the films created here, there is no appearance of a capping layer of perovskite when the mesoporous A1203 films are coated with the perovskite, indicating that the perovskite is predominantly located within the porous film. To complete the photoactive layer, the hole- transporter, spiro-OMeTAD, is spin-coated on top of the perovskite coated electrode. The spiro-OMeTAD does predominantly fill the pores and forms a capping layer on top of the whole film. The film is capped with a silver electrode to complete the device. A schematic illustration of the device structure is shown in Figure 1, along with further illustrations of the device structure in Figure 2 and Figure 3. We term this type of solar cell, where the photoactive layer is assembled upon a porous insulating scaffold as meso-superstructured solar cells (MSSCs). A cross sectional SEM image of a complete photoactive layer; Glass- FTO-mesoporous A12O3-K330-spiro-OMeTAD, is shown in Figure 9.
Solar cell characterization
In Figure 4 the current-voltage curve for a solar cell composed of FTO-compact Ti02-mesoprous A1203 - CH3 H3PbCl2l perovskite -spiro-OMeTAD-Ag measured under simulated full sun illumination is shown. The short-circuit photocurrent is 17 mA cm"2 and the open-circuit voltage is close to 1 V giving an overall power conversion efficiency of 10.9 %. For the most efficient devices the open-circuit voltage is between 1 to 1.1 V. In Figure 6, the photovoltaic action spectrum is shown for the solar cell, which gives a peak incident photon-to-electron conversion efficiency above 80 % and spans the photoactive region from 450 to 800 nm.
Comparison to existing technology
The power-conversion efficiency for this system is at the very highest level for new and emerging solar technologies (M. A. Green, K. Emery, Y. Hishikawa, W. Warta, E. D. Dunlop, Prog. Photovolt. Res. Appl. 19, 565-572 (2011)), but more exciting than the efficiency is the extremely high open-circuit voltage generated. GaAs is the only other photovoltaic technology which both absorbs over the visible to nearlR region and generates such a high open-circuit voltage. The "fundamental energy loss" in a solar cell can be quantified as the difference in energy between the open-circuit voltage generated under full sun light and the band-gap of the absorber (H. J. Snaith, Adv. Funct. Mater. 20, 13-19 (2010)). The theoretical maximum open-circuit voltage can be estimated as a function of band gap following the Shockley-Queisser treatment (I-K. Ding et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 19, 2431-2436 (2009)), and for a material with a band gap of 1.55 eV the maximum possible open-circuit voltage under full sun illumination is 1.3 V, giving a minimum "loss-in- potential" 0.25 eV. In Figure 7, the open-circuit voltage is plotted versus the optical-band gap of the absorber, for the "best-in-class" of most established and emerging solar technologies. For the meso-superstructured perovskite solar cell the optical band gap is taken to be 1.55 eV and the open-circuit voltage to be 1.1 V. With loss-in-potential as the only metric, the new technology is very well positioned in fourth out of all solar technologies behind GaAs, crystalline silicon and copper indium gallium (di)selenide. Remarkably, the perovskite solar cells have fundamental losses than are lower than CdTe, which is the technology of choice for the world's largest solar company.
Perovskite crystal structure
The X-ray diffraction pattern, shown in Figure 8 was extracted at room temperature from CH3 H3PbCl2l thin film coated onto glass slide by using X'pert Pro X-ray
Diffractometer.
Figure 8 shows the typical X-ray diffraction pattern of the ( Methylammonium Dichloromonoiodo plumbate(II); CH3 H3PbCl2l film on glass substrate. X-ray diffraction pattern confirms the ABX3 type of cubic (a=b=c=90) perovskite structure (Pm3m).
CH3 H3PbCl2I gave diffraction peaks at 14.20, 28.58, and 43.27°, assigned as the (100), (200), and (300) planes, respectively of a cubic perovskite structure with lattice parameter a ) 8.835 A, b) 8.835 and c ) 11.24A. A sharp diffraction peaks at (h 0 0; where h =1-3) suggest that the films fabricated on glass substrate were predominantly single phase and were highly oriented with the a-axis self-assembly ["Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells" Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai and Tsutomu Miyasaka, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6050].
CH3 H3 + cation cannot be assigned in the X ray given its dynamic orientation, CH3 H3 + is incompatible with the molecular symmetry, and hence the cation is still disordered in this phase at room temperature. And thus, the effective contribution of the C and N atoms to the total diffracted intensity is very small relative to the contributions from Pb and X (CI and I) ["Alkylammonium lead halides. Part 2. CH3 H3PbX3 (X = CI, Br, I) perovskites: cuboctahedral halide cages with isotropic cation reorientation", Osvaldkn OP and Rodericke Wasylishenm et al. Can. J. Chem. 1990, 68, 412.].
The peak positions for the synthesised mixed CH3 H3PbCl2I at (h,0,0) were observed to be shifted towards lower 2Θ and were positioned in between the pure methylammonium trihalogen plumbate i.e. CH3 H3PbI3 and CH3 H3PbCl3 ["Dynamic disorder in
methylammoniumtrihalogenoplumbates (II) observed by millimeter-wave spectroscopy", A. Poglitsch and D. Weber, J. Chem. Phys. 1987, 87, 6373.] respectively, and also the increased lattice parameter (a = 8.835 A )of the CH3 H3PbCl2I film as compared to pure "CI" based perovskite i.e. CH3 H3PbCl3 (a = 5.67 A) with the addition of "I" content gives an evidence of the formation of mixed halide perovskite ["Optical properties of CH3 H3PbX3 (X =
halogen) and their mixed-halide crystals", N. Kitazawa, Y. Watanabe and Y Nakamura , J. Mat Sci. 2002, 37, 3585.].
The diffraction pattern of the product contained a few unidentified peaks, they can attributed to the various factors including the presence of some impurity (e.g. Pb(OH)Cl, CH3 H3X ; X = CI and/or I, or a related compounds that may generate during the synthesis even if slightly excess of reactants are used, and also to the hygroscopic nature of the compound which can resultantly form unwanted impurity ["Alkylammonium lead halides. Part 2. CH3 H3PbX3 (X = CI, Br, I) perovskites: cuboctahedral halide cages with isotropic cation reorientation", Osvaldkn OP and Rodericke Wasylishenm et al. Can. J. Chem. 1990, 68, 412.] Additionally, "I" ion present in the lattice may split some of the peaks at room temperature given the fact that the pure "I" based perovskite (QH^ LPbL) forms tetragonal structure ["Alkylammonium lead halides. Part 1. Isolated ~ b 1 6 i~on-s in (ΟΗ3 ¾)4Ρ^6- 2H20" Beverlyr Vincent K, Robertsont, Stanlecya merona, N Dosvaldk, Can. J. Chem. 1987, 65, 1042.; "Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells" Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai and Tsutomu Miyasaka, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6050].
Figures 10 to 12 relate to perovskites comprising a formamidinium cation and devices comprising FOPbl3yBr3(i-y). In general, it is considered to be advantageous to retain a 3D crystal structure in the perovskite, as opposed to creating layered perovskites which will inevitably have larger exciton binding energies (Journal of Luminescence 60&61 (1994) 269 274). It is also advantageous to be able to tune the band gap of the perovskite. The band gap can be changed by either changing the metal cations or halides, which directly influence both the electronic orbitals and the crystal structure. Alternatively, by changing the organic cation (for example from a methylammonium cation to a formamidinium cation), the crystal structure can be altered. However, in order to fit within the perovskite crystal, the following geometric condition must be met: wherein RA,B,&X are the ionic radii of ABX ions. The inventor have unexpectedly found that formamidinium cation (FO) does indeed form the perovskite structure in a the cubic structure in a FOPbBr3 or FOPbL perovskite, and mixed halide perovskites thereof.
The work leading to this invention has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007- 20131 ERC grant agreement n° 279881).
Claims
1. An optoelectronic device comprising:
(i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and
(ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material.
2. An optoelectronic device according to claim 1 wherein the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 2.8 eV.
3. An optoelectronic device according to claim 1 or claim 2 wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
4. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 3 wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surfaces of pores within said dielectric scaffold material.
5. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the dielectric scaffold material comprises an oxide of aluminium, germanium, zirconium, silicon, yttrium or ytterbium; or alumina silicate.
6. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the dielectric scaffold material comprises porous alumina.
7. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the dielectric scaffold material comprises mesoporous alumina.
8. An optoelectronic device according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the porosity of said dielectric scaffold material is equal to or greater than 50%.
9. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the porous dielectric scaffold material is mesoporous.
10. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the semiconductor is also a photosensitizing material.
11. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor.
12. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the semiconductor comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
13. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor.
14. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 9 and 13 wherein the semiconductor comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising a perovskite.
15. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 9 wherein the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor.
16. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 9 and 13 wherein the semiconductor comprises an intrinsic semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
17. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 10 wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, Sb2S3, Sb2Se3, Bi2S3, Bi2Se3, CIS, CIGS, CZTS, CZTSSe, FeS2, CdS, CdSe, PbS, PbSe, Ge or GaAs, preferably wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite, CZTS, CZTSSe, gallium arsenide, an animony chalcogenide, or a bismuth chalcogenide.
18. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the semiconductor has a band gap of less than or equal to 2.5 eV, optionally less than or equal to 2.0 eV.
19. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said band gap is at least 0.5 eV.
20. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the semiconductor comprises a perovskite.
21. An optoelectronic device according to claim 20 wherein the perovskite comprises at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
22. An optoelectronic device according to claim 21 wherein the perovskite comprises a first cation, a second cation, and said at least one anion.
23. An optoelectronic device according to claim 22 wherein the second cation is a metal cation.
24. An optoelectronic device according to claim 23 wherein the metal cation is selected from Sn2+ and Pb2+.
25. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 22 to 24 wherein the first cation is an organic cation.
26. An optoelectronic device according to claim 25 wherein the organic cation has the formula (R5 H3)+, wherein R5 is hydrogen, or unsubstituted or substituted C1-C20 alkyl.
27. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 20 to 26 wherein the perovskite is a mixed-anion perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
28. An optoelectronic device according to claim 27 wherein the perovskite is a mixed- halide perovskite, wherein said two or more different anions are two or more different halide anions.
29. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 20 to 26 wherein the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
30. An optoelectronic device according to claim 29 wherein [X] is two or more different anions selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
31. An optoelectronic device according to claim 29 or claim 30 wherein [X] is two or more different halide anions.
32. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 20 to 31 wherein the perovskite is a perovskite compound of the formula (IA):
AB[X]3 (IA)
wherein:
A is an organic cation;
B is a metal cation; and
[X] is two or more different halide anions.
33. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 20 to 32 wherein the perovskite is a perovskite compound of formula (II):
ABX3_yX'y (Π) wherein:
A is an organic cation; B is an metal cation; X is a first halide anion;
X' is a second halide anion which is different from the first halide anion; and y is from 0.05 to 2.95.
34. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 10 to 23, wherein the perovskite is selected from CH3 H3PbBrI2, CH3 H3PbBrCl2, CH3 H3PbIBr2,
CH3 H3PbICl2, CH3 H3PbClBr2, CH3 H3PbI2Cl, CH3 H3SnBrI2, CH3 H3SnBrCl2, CH3 H3SnF2Br, CH3 H3SnIBr2, CH3 H3SnICl2, CH3 H3SnF2I, CH3 H3SnClBr2, CH3 H3SnI2Cl and CH3 H3SnF2Cl.
35. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims which comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor.
36. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims which comprises a photoactive layer, which photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor.
37. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims which further comprises a charge transporting material.
38. An optoelectronic device according to claim 37 wherein the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material or an electron transporting material.
39. An optoelectronic device according to claim 37 or claim 38 wherein the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material.
40. An optoelectronic device according to claim 39 wherein the hole transporting material is a polymeric or molecular hole transporter.
41. An optoelectronic device according to claim 39 wherein the hole transporting material is selected from spiro-OMeTAD, P3HT, PCPDTBT and PVK.
42. An optoelectronic device according to claim 39 wherein the hole transporting material is an inorganic hole transporter.
43. An optoelectronic device according to claim 42 wherein the inorganic hole transporter is Cul, CuBr, CuSCN, Cu20, CuO or CIS.
44. An optoelectronic device according to claim 37 or claim 38 wherein the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material.
45. An optoelectronic device according to claim 44 wherein the electron transporting material comprise a fullerene or perylene, or derivatives thereof, or P( DI20D-T2).
46. An optoelectronic device according to claim 37 or claim 38 wherein the charge transporting material comprises a perovskite.
47. An optoelectronic device according to claim 39 wherein the hole transporting material comprises a perovskite.
48. An optoelectronic device according to claim 44 wherein the electron transporting material comprises a perovskite.
49. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 46 to 48 in which said semiconductor comprises a first perovskite, wherein the first perovskite is as defined in any one of claims 20 to 34, and said charge transporting material comprises a second perovskite, wherein the first and second perovskites are the same or different.
50. An optoelectronic device according to claim 49 wherein the first and second perovskites are different.
51. An optoelectronic device according to any of claims 46 to 50 wherein the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite comprising a first cation, a second cation, and at least one anion.
52. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 46 to 51 wherein the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite compound of formula (IB):
[A][B][X]3 (IB) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation or at least one group 1 metal cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and [X] is said at least one anion.
53. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein [A] comprises Cs+.
54. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 or claim 53 wherein [B] comprises Pb2+ or Sn2+.
55. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 52 to 54 wherein [B] comprises Pb2+.
56. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 52 to 55 wherein [X] comprises a halide anion or a plurality of different halide anions.
57. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 52 to 56 wherein [X] comprises Γ.
58. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbI3 or CsSnI3.
59. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbI3.
60. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbI2Cl, CsPbICl2, CsPbI2F, CsPbIF2, CsPbI2Br, CsPbIBr2, CsSnI2Cl, CsSnICl2, CsSnI2F, CsSnIF2, CsSnI2Br or CsSnIBr2.
61. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein the perovskite compound of formula (IB) is CsPbICl2.
62. An optoelectronic device according to claim 52 wherein: [X] is as defined in claim 30 or claim 31; and/or
[A] comprises an organic cation as defined in claim 25 or claim 26; and/or
[B] comprises a metal cation as defined in claim 23 or claim 24.
63. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 46 to 50 wherein the perovskite of the charge transporting material is a perovskite as defined in any one of claims 21 to 34.
64. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 37 to 63 wherein the charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
65. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 37 to 64 which comprises a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer comprises: said porous dielectric scaffold material;
said semiconductor; and
said charge transporting material.
66. An optoelectronic device according to claim 65 wherein the semiconductor is an n- type semiconductor as defined in any one of claims 11, 12 and 20 to 34 and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined in any one of claims 39 to 43, 46, 47 and 49 to 63.
67. An optoelectronic device according to claim 65 wherein the semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor as defined in claim 13 or claim 14 and the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material as defined in any one of claims 44 to 46 and 48 to 63.
68. An optoelectronic device according to claim 65 wherein the semiconductor is an intrinsic semiconductor as defined in any one of claims 15, 16 and 20 to 34 and the charge
transport material is a hole transport material as defined in any one of claims 39 to 43, 46, 47 and 49 to 63, or an electron transport material as defined in any one of claims 44 to 46 and 48 to 63.
69. An optoelectronic device according to claim 65 wherein the semiconductor is a perovskite as defined in any one of claims 20 to 34.
70. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 65 to 69 which photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
71. An optoelectronic device according any one of claims 65 to 69 which photoactive layer comprises a layer comprising said charge transporting material disposed on a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein the device further comprises said charge transporting material disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material.
72. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 36 and 65 to 71 wherein the thickness of the photoactive layer is from 100 nm to 3000 nm.
73. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 36 and 65 to 72 which comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: said photoactive layer.
74. An optoelectronic device according to any of claims 36 and 65 to 73 which comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: said photoactive layer; and
a compact layer comprising a metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide.
75. An optoelectronic device according to claim 74 wherein the compact layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal sulphide.
76. An optoelectronic device according to claim 74 or claim 75 wherein the compact layer comprises an n-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of titanium, tin, zinc, gallium, niobium, tantalum, indium, neodymium, palladium or cadmium, or a sulphide of zinc or cadmium.
77. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 74 to 76 wherein the compact layer comprises Ti02.
78. An optoelectronic device according to claim 74 or claim 75 wherein the compact layer comprises a p-type semiconductor comprising an oxide of nickel, vanadium or copper.
79. An optoelectronic device according to claim 74 or claim 75 wherein the compact layer comprises an oxide of molybdenum or tungsten.
80. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 74 to 77 which further comprises an additional layer, disposed between the compact layer and the photoactive layer, which additional layer comprises a metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide which is the same as or different from the metal oxide or a metal chalcogenide employed in the compact layer.
81. An optoelectronic device according to claim 80 wherein the additional layer comprises alumina, magnesium oxide, cadmium sulphide, silicon dioxide or yttrium oxide.
82. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said device is selected from a photovoltaic device; a photodiode; a phototransistor; a
photomultiplier; a photo resistor; a photo detector; a light-sensitive detector; solid-state triode; a battery electrode; a light-emitting device; a light-emitting diode; a transistor; a solar cell; a laser; and a diode injection laser.
83. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said device is a photovoltaic device.
84. An optoelectronic device according to any one of the preceding claims wherein said device is a solar cell.
85. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 82 wherein said device is a light-emitting diode
86. An optoelectronic device according to claim 83 which is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a photoactive layer; wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and
[X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
87. An optoelectronic device according to claim 83 which is a photovoltaic device, wherein the device comprises: a first electrode; a second electrode; and disposed between the first and second electrodes: a compact layer comprising a metal oxide or chalcogenide; and a photoactive layer;
wherein the photoactive layer comprises a charge transporting material and a layer comprising said porous dielectric scaffold material and said semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor is a photosensitizing material and is disposed on the surface of pores within said dielectric scaffold material, and wherein said charge transporting material is disposed within pores of said porous dielectric scaffold material; and said semiconductor comprises a perovskite which is a perovskite compound of formula (I):
[A][B][X]3 (I) wherein:
[A] is at least one organic cation;
[B] is at least one metal cation; and
[X] is at least one anion selected from halide anions and chalcogenide anions.
88. An optoelectronic device according to claim 86 or claim 87 wherein the
semiconductor is an n-type semiconductor and the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined in any one of claims 39 to 43, 46, 47 and 49 to 63.
89. An optoelectronic device according to claim 86 or claim 87 wherein the
semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor and the charge transporting material is an electron transporting material as defined in any one of claims 44 to 46 and 48 to 63.
90. An optoelectronic device according to any of the preceding claims wherein x is less than or equal to 0.6 eV, wherein: x is equal to A-B, wherein:
A is the optical band gap of said thin-film semiconductor; and
B is the open-circuit voltage generated by the optoelectronic device under standard AM1.5G 100 mWcm"2 solar illumination.
An optoelectronic device according to claim 90 wherein x is less than or equal to
92. Use of:
(i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and
(ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; in an optoelectronic device.
93. Use, according to claim 92, of:
(i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and
(ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
94. Use, according to claim 93, of (i) said porous dielectric scaffold material; (ii) said semiconductor, in contact with the scaffold material; and (iii) a charge transporting material, as a photoactive material in an optoelectronic device.
95. Use of a layer comprising:
(i) a porous dielectric scaffold material; and
(ii) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; as a photoactive layer in an optoelectronic device.
96. Use according to claim 95 wherein the layer further comprises a charge transporting material.
97. Use according to any one of claims 92 to 96 wherein the semiconductor is as defined in any one of claims 3, 4, and 10 to 34.
98. Use according to claim 94, claim 96 or claim 97 wherein the charge transporting material is a hole transporting material as defined in any one of claims 39 to 43, 46, 47 and 49 to 63, or an electron transport material as defined in any one of claims 44 to 46 and 48 to 63.
99. Use according to any one of claims 92 to 98 wherein:
(a) the porous dielectric scaffold material is as defined in any one of claims 5 to 9; and/or
(b) the semiconductor is as defined in any one of claims 20 to 34.
100. Use according to any one of claims 92 to 99 wherein the optoelectronic device is a photovoltaic device.
101. Use according to any one of claims 92 to 99 wherein the optoelectronic device is a light-emitting diode.
102. A photoactive layer for an optoelectronic device comprising (a) a porous dielectric scaffold material; (b) a semiconductor having a band gap of less than or equal to 3.0 eV, in contact with the scaffold material; and (c) a charge transporting material.
103. A photoactive layer according to claim 102 wherein the semiconductor is as defined in any one of claims 3, 4, and 10 to 34.
104. A photoactive layer according to claim 102 or claim 103 wherein:
(a) the porous dielectric scaffold material is as defined in any one of claims 5 to 9;
(b) the semiconductor is a perovskite is as defined in any one of claims 20 to 34; and/or
(c) the charge transporting material is as defined in any one of claims 38 to 63.
105. An optoelectronic device according to any one of claims 36 to 79 and 86 to 89, or a photoactive layer according to any one of claims 101 to 104, wherein said photoactive layer further comprises encapsulated metal nanoparticles.
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