Inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells have demonstrated considerable improvements, reaching 25.5% of certified power conversion efficiency in 2020 from 3.8% in 2009. In normal structured perovskite solar cells, TiO₂ electrontransporting materials require heat treatment process at a high temperature over 450℃ to induce crystallinity. Inverted perovskite solar cells have also been studied to exclude the additional thermal process by using [6,6]-phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) as a non-oxide electron-transporting layer. However, the drawback of the PCBM layer is a charge accumulation at the interface between PCBM and a metal electrode. The impact of bathocuproin (BCP) buffer layer on photovoltaic performance has been investigated herein to solve the problem of PCBM. 2-mM BCP-modified perovskite solar cells were observed to exhibit a maximum efficiency of 12.03% compared with BCP-free counterparts (5.82%) due to the suppression of the charge accumulation at the PCBM-Au interface and the resulting reduction of the charge recombination between perovskite and the PCBM layer.

Inorganic-organic hybrid perovskite solar cells have demonstrated a significant achievement by reaching a certified power conversion efficiency of 25.2% in 2019 as compared to that of 3.8% in 2009. However, organic hole conductors such as PTAA and spiro-OMeTAD are known to be expensive and unstable when they are exposed to operational conditions. In this study, the inorganic hole conductor CuSCN was used to overcome such concerns. The influence of dipropyl sulfide (DPS) and diethyl sulfide (DES) as CuSCN deposition solvents on the underlying perovskite active layer was investigated. DES solvent was observed to be advantageous in terms of CuSCN solubility and mild for the perovskite layer, thereby resulting in a power conversion efficiency of 16.9%.

In this study, lead-free Piezoelectric (Na0.47K0.47Sr0.03Ca0.03)(Nb0.94Ti0.06)O3-0.1 MnO2 ceramics werefabricated using mixed oxide method and the effects of various sintering temperature on the structural andelectrical properties were investigated. For the (Na0.47K0.47Sr0.03Ca0.03)(Nb0.94Ti0.06)O3-0.1 MnO2 (NKN-SCT-MnO2)ceramics sintered at temperatures of 1,025∼1,100℃. The results indicated that all specimens were perovskitesingle phase formation without any second phase. It has been shown that relative density is increased toincreasing sintering temperature. When the sintered temperature at 1,075℃, highest sintered density andmaximum value of 4.45 g/cm3. Average grain size is increased to increasing sintering temperature. Theelectromechanical coupling factor, dielectric constant, dielectric loss, d33 and curie temperature at the sinteringtemperature 1,075℃ of NKN-SCT-MnO2 specimens were 0.22, 511, 0.033, 103 and 380℃, respectively.