IP Library Granted Patent US 12,396,313
Granted Patent B2
US 12,396,313 · App. 17/435,481 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Solar cell

Inventors: Akinobu Hayakawa (Osaka, JP); Takurou Okumura (Ibaraki, JP); Takeshi Fukuda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
H10K30/81H10K30/451H10K30/82H10K30/87H10K85/50H10K30/85
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Patent No.
US 12,396,313
App. No.
17/435,481
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention aims to provide a solar cell having high photoelectric conversion efficiency that is less likely to decrease even under prolonged application of a voltage. Provided is a solar cell including a cathode, a photoelectric conversion layer, a diffusion prevention layer, and an anode in the stated order, the cathode being a transparent electrode, the anode containing at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, antimony, and molybdenum, the photoelectric conversion layer containing an organic-inorganic perovskite compound represented by the formula AMX wherein A represents an organic base compound and/or an alkali metal, M represents a lead or tin atom, and X represents a halogen atom, the diffusion prevention layer being a diffusion prevention layer that contains molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, hafnium, or an alloy of two or more thereof and has a thickness of 5 to 30 nm, a diffusion prevention layer that contains an oxide containing titanium, gallium, zinc, tin, indium, antimony, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, chromium, nickel, or lead, a diffusion prevention layer that contains a nitride containing titanium, vanadium, chromium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, zirconium, or hafnium and has a thickness of 5 to 50 nm, or a diffusion prevention layer that contains graphite and has a thickness of 2 nm to 50 nm.

Claims (15)

1. A solar cell comprising:

a cathode;

a photoelectric conversion layer;

a hole transport layer;

a diffusion prevention layer; and

an anode in the stated order,

the cathode being a transparent electrode,

the anode containing at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum, copper, antimony, and molybdenum,

the photoelectric conversion layer containing an organic-inorganic perovskite compound represented by the formula AMX wherein A represents an organic base compound and/or an alkali metal, M represents a lead or tin atom, and X represents a halogen atom,

the diffusion prevention layer being:

a diffusion prevention layer that contains tungsten, tantalum, niobium, zirconium, hafnium, or an alloy containing one or more thereof and has a thickness of 5 to 30 nm;

a diffusion prevention layer that contains an oxide containing titanium, gallium, antimony, molybdenum, tungsten, vanadium, chromium, or lead;

a diffusion prevention layer that contains a nitride containing titanium, vanadium, chromium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, zirconium, or hafnium and has a thickness of 5 to 50 nm; or

a diffusion prevention layer that contains graphite and has a thickness of 2 nm to 50 nm,

wherein, when the diffusion prevention layer contains the oxide, the anode contains molybdenum or consists of antimony.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2021
From: HAYAKAWA, AKINOBU; OKUMURA, TAKUROU; FUKUDA, TAKESHI
To: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-051297 · Mar 19, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220140269A1 · May 5, 2022
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