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\u00a0<Photo. (From left) Professor Jung-Yong Lee, Ph.D. candidate Min-Ho Lee, and Master\u2019s candidate Min Seok Kim of the School of Electrical Engineering><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Existing perovskite solar cells, which have the problem of not being able to utilize approximately 52% of total solar energy, have been developed by a Korean research team as an innovative technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture performance while greatly improving power conversion efficiency. This greatly increases the possibility of commercializing next-generation solar cells and is expected to contribute to important technological advancements in the global solar cell market.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The research team of Professor Jung-Yong Lee of the KAIST EE and Professor Woojae Kim of the Department of Chemistry at Yonsei University developed a high-efficiency and high-stability organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell production technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture beyond the existing visible light range.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The research team suggested and advanced a hybrid next-generation device structure with organic photo-semiconductors that complements perovskite materials limited to visible light absorption and expands the absorption range to near-infrared.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition, they revealed the electronic structure problem that mainly occurs in the structure and announced a high-performance solar cell device that dramatically solved this problem by introducing a dipole layer*.\u00a0*Dipole layer: A thin material layer that controls the energy level within the device to facilitate charge transport and forms an interface potential difference to improve device performance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Existing lead-based perovskite solar cells have a problem in that their absorption spectrum is limited to the visible light region with a wavelength of 850 nanometers (nm) or less, which prevents them from utilizing approximately 52% of the total solar energy.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n To solve this problem, the research team designed a hybrid device that combined an organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) with perovskite and implemented a solar cell that can absorb up to the near-infrared region.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In particular, by introducing a sub-nanometer dipole interface layer, they succeeded in alleviating the energy barrier between the perovskite and the organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ), suppressing charge accumulation, maximizing the contribution to the near-infrared, and improving the current density (JSC) to 4.9 mA\/cm\u00b2.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The key achievement of this study is that the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the hybrid device has been significantly increased from 20.4% to 24.0%. In particular, this study achieved a high internal quantum efficiency (IQE) compared to previous studies, reaching 78% in the near-infrared region.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n < Figure. The illustration of the mechanism of improving the electronic structure and charge transfer capability through Perovskite\/organic hybrid device structure and dipole interfacial layers (DILs). The proposed dipole interfacial layer forms a strong interfacial dipole, effectively reducing the energy barrier between the perovskite and organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ), and suppressing hole accumulation. This technology improves near-infrared photon harvesting and charge transfer, and as a result, the power conversion efficiency of the solar cell increases to 24.0%. In addition, it achieves excellent stability by maintaining performance for 1,200 hours even in an extremely humid environment. ><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In addition, this device showed high stability, showing excellent results of maintaining more than 80% of the initial efficiency in the maximum output tracking for more than 800 hours even under extreme humidity conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor Jung-Yong Lee said, \u201cThrough this study, we have effectively solved the charge accumulation and energy band mismatch problems faced by existing perovskite\/organic hybrid solar cells, and we will be able to significantly improve the power conversion efficiency while maximizing the near-infrared light capture performance, which will be a new breakthrough that can solve the mechanical-chemical stability problems of existing perovskites and overcome the optical limitations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This study, in which KAIST School of Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Min-Ho Lee and Master’s candidate Min Seok Kim participated as co-first authors, was published in the September 30th online edition of the international academic journal\u00a0Advanced Materials. (Paper title:\u00a0Suppressing Hole Accumulation Through Sub-Nanometer Dipole Interfaces in Hybrid Perovskite\/Organic Solar Cells for Boosting Near-Infrared Photon Harvesting).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This study was conducted with the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 245<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":176399,"template":"","research_category":[354],"class_list":["post-186412","research-achieve","type-research-achieve","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","research_category-nanotechnology-materials-science-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve\/186412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-achieve"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research-achieve"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"research_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research_category?post=186412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/ee.presscat.kr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/images_000084_Eng-image01-1_900.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
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