Doped hole transport layer for efficiency enhancement in planar heterojunction organolead trihalide perovskite solar cells

•Perovskite solar cells (PSC) with high efficiency of 17.5% were fabricated.•It reveals the low conductivity of currently used polymer HTL limits PSC efficiency.•Doping the HTL increased device fill factor and enhanced device efficiency

We demonstrated the efficiency of a solution-processed planar heterojunction organometallic trihalide perovskite solar cell can be increased to 17.5% through doping the hole transporting layer for reducing the resistivity. Doped Poly(triaryl amine) (PTAA) by 2,3,5,6-Tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ) reduced device series resistance by three-folds, increasing the device fill factor to 74%, open circuit voltage to 1.09 V without sacrificing the short circuit current. This study reveals that the high resistivity of currently broadly applied polymer hole transport layer limits the device efficiency, and points a new direction to improve the device efficiency.

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