Colloidal CuInS₂ Quantum Dots as Inorganic Hole-Transporting Material in Perovskite Solar Cells

Abstract

To develop novel hole-transporting materials (HTMs) is an important issue of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), especially favoring the stability improvement and the cost reduction. Herein, we use ternary quantum dots (QDs) as HTM in mesoporous TiO2/CH3NH3PbI3/HTM/Au solar cell, and modify the surface of CuInS2 QDs by cation exchange to improve the carrier transport. The device efficiency using CuInS2 QDs with a ZnS shell layer as HTM is 8.38% under AM 1.5, 100 mW cm(-2). The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy suggested that the significantly enhanced performance is mainly attributed to the reduced charge recombination between TiO2 and HTM. It paves a new pathway for the future development of cheap inorganic HTMs for the high efficiency PSCs.