High efficiency and high photo-stability zinc-phthalocyanine based planar heterojunction solar cells with a double interfacial layer

The use of CuI and MoO3 as a double interfacial layer between indium tin oxide (ITO) and a zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) layer improves the power conversion efficiency (ηp) and the photo-stability at the same time in ZnPc based solar cells. Insertion of CuI without MoO3 increased ηp more than 2 times to 3.3%. However, the photo-stability is lowered even further due to diffusion of Cu. Insertion of the MoO3 layer between the ITO and CuI prevents the diffusion of Cu under UV illumination to achieve the improved photo-stability and ηp.