Saheed, Mohamed Salleh Mohamed and Mohamed, Norani Muti and Balbir Singh Mahinder, Singh and Saheed, Mohamed Shuaib Mohamed and Jose, Rajan (2022) Optoelectronic enhancement of perovskite solar cells through the incorporation of plasmonic particles. Micromachines, 13 (7). pp. 1-16. ISSN 2072-666X. (Published)
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Abstract
The optoelectronic advantages of anchoring plasmonic silver and copper particles and non-plasmonic titanium particles onto zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoflower (NF) scaffolds for the fabrication of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are addressed in this article. The metallic particles were sputter-deposited as a function of sputtering time to vary their size on solution-grown ZnO NFs on which methylammonium lead iodide perovskite was crystallized in a controlled environment. Optical absorption measurements showed impressive improvements in the light-harvesting efficiency (LHE) of the devices using silver nanoparticles and some concentrations of copper, whereas the LHE was relatively lower in devices used titanium than in a control device without any metallic particles. Fully functional PSCs were fabricated using the plasmonic and non-plasmonic metallic film-deco-rated ZnO NFs. Several fold enhancements in photoconversion efficiency were achieved in the sil-ver-containing devices compared with the control device, which was accompanied by an increase in the photocurrent density, photovoltage, and fill factor. To understand the plasmonic effects in the photoanode, the LHE, photo-current density, photovoltage, photoluminescence, incident pho-ton-to-current conversion efficiency, and electrochemical impedance properties were thoroughly investigated. This research showcases the efficacy of the addition of plasmonic particles onto photo anodes, which leads to improved light scattering, better charge separation, and reduced electron– hole recombination rate.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Indexed by Scopus |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Charge transfer; Plasmonic effects; Plasmonic perovskite solar cell; Recombination rate |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > T Technology (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Industrial Sciences And Technology |
| Depositing User: | Mr Muhamad Firdaus Janih@Jaini |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Aug 2022 03:18 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Aug 2022 03:18 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/34880 |
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