Abstract:Carbon electrode has the advantages of low-cost, convenient printing and the ability to isolate water and oxygen. Therefore, it is appealing to use carbon as the electrode material to achieve low-cost and highly stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, conventional carbon-based perovskite solar cells (C-PSCs) without hole transport layers is still facing the problems of low hole extraction rate, electron reverse transfer, and undesired recombination at the perovskite/carbon interface. In this paper, poly (3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is applied as the hole transport layer of the device, thus the photovoltaic performance of solar cells with an architecture of ITO/SnO2/MAPbI3/P3HT/Carbon is significantly improved, achieving a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 13.37%, which is 2.21% higher than that of the device without P3HT. Moreover, in nitrogen environment, the PCE of the device remains 87% of its initial value with continuous illumination for 1000h. In contrast, the PCE of the device without P3HT remains only 60% after illumination for 500h.