《Organometal Perovskite Light Absorbers Toward a 20% Eciency》.pdf

Perspective /JPCL Organometal Perovskite Light Absorbers Toward a 20% Efficiency Low-Cost Solid-State Mesoscopic Solar Cell Nam-Gyu Park* School of Chemical Engineering and Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Republic of Korea ABSTRACT: Recently, perovskite CH NH PbI sensitizer has attracted great attention 3 3 3 due to its superb light-harvesting characteristics. Organometallic or organic materials were mostly used as sensitizers for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells at early stages. Inorganic nanocrystals have lately received attention as light harvesters due to their high light- absorbing properties. Metal chalcogenides have been investigated with solid-state dye- sensitized solar cells; however, the best power conversion efficiency was reported to be around 6%. CH NH PbX (X = Cl, Br, or I) perovskite sensitizer made a breakthrough in 3 3 3 solid-state mescoscopic solar cells, where the first record efficiency of around 10% was reported in 2012 using submicrometer-thick TiO film sensitized with CH NH PbI . A 2 3 3 3 rapid increase in efficiency approaching 14% followed shortly. In this Perspective, recent progress in perovskite-sensitized solid- state mesoscopic solar cells is reviewed. On the basis of the recent achievements, a power conversion efficiency as high as 20% is expected based on optimized perovskite-based solid-state solar cells. Progress in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Since the first was found from nanosecond laser spectroscopic