Numerical Simulation of Inverted Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell

The article demonstrate the study of numerical simulation for an inverted hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC) with a device arrangement i.e. FTO/CuSCN/MAPbI
3
/PCBM/SnO
2
/Pt, where, CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3
is used as an absorber (perovskite) layer, PCBM is used as ETL (Electron Transport Layer), CuSCN is incorporated as HTL (Hole Transport Layer) and SnO
2
is employed as a buffer layer. This paper highlights the optimization and detailed systematic analysis performed to inspect the impact of variation in defect-density (N
t
), thickness, functional temperature, and acceptor density (N
A
) on the performance of inverted hybrid PSC by incorporation of SCAPS-1D solar simulator tool. This paper reports the highest Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE) of 20.69% at 300 K for the inverted hybrid PSC numerical simulation with the N
t
of 10
¹⁵
cm
^-3
and thickness of 600 nm.