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. 2024 Jan 23;18(5):3871–3915. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.3c10033

Table 1. Performance and Stability of Some Common Electrodes in SCs.

Electrode Material Configuration Efficiency Stability/Remarks Ref
Ag Ag/MoO3/PM6:Y6/ZnO/PH1000/Ag-Grid 10.87% The photolithographic based Ag grid demonstrated high efficiency at 400 μm thickness (up to 97.6%) (375)
Ag FTO/Cu:NiOx/MAPbI3/PCBM/Ag 15.87% Corrosive behavior of Ag electrode causes instability in PSCs (376)
Ag thin film TeO2/Ag/BCP/PCBM/Pervoskite/NiOx/ITO/Glass 17.36% TeO2 with Ag is a good choice for developing bifacial SCs (377)
AgNWs Glass/FTO/bl-TiO2/MAPbI3/spiro-OMe-TAD/AgNWs 10.64% AgNWs are found to be more stable in comparison to other metallic films (239)
Au DSSC 2.3% Gold leaf based counter electrodes were found to be excellent for DSSC due to their porous surface (378)
Au Glass/FTO/SnO2/TiO2/Pervoskite/Spiro-OMe-TAD/Au 25.8% In metal based electrodes Au is found to be the most stable (176)
Au thin film MoO3/Au/MoO3/PTB7:PC71BM/Al 6% 50% increase in PCE occurred in comparison to referenced device (379)
Ni Glass/FTO/TiO2/Al2O3/HP/piro-OMe-TAD/PEDOT:PSS/TCA/PET/Ni/PET 15.5% PCE drops with the illumination of Ni (bottom electrode) (279)
Cu ITO/PTAA/MAPbI3/Cu 20.7% Stays stable while maintaining 98% of original PCE after keeping for 816 h in ambient conditions (274)
Al ITO/PEDOT:PSS/P3HT:PCBM/LiF/Al 4.6% The stability was improved with the insertion of an LiF layer in between the Al and active layer (380)
Al Glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/MAPbI3/PCBM/Al 16.1% Due to oxidation the stability of Al is considerably low (272)
CNTs SWCNTs-Glass/FTO/C-TiO2/TiO2:Al2O3/MAPbI3/SWCNT-C 14.7% Found to be more stable than metallic based electrodes (381)
GR PEN/GR/MoO3/PEDOT:PSS/MAPbI3/C60/BCP/LiF/Al 16.8% Found to be comparatively more stable (382)
GR GR/PCBM:GQDs/MAPbI3/PTAA/Au 16.4% Highly stable (382)
GR with AgNWs Gr:AgNWs/PH1000/PEDOT:PSS/Active layer/PDINO/Al 13.4% Retained 84.6% PCE after being bent 1000 times. (383)
PANI+Au   6.71% PCE of the DSSCs with PANI/Au composite electrode was found to be more efficient compared to Pt based DSSC (PCE 6.18%) (384)
ITO Glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/Perovskite/PCBM/Ag 15.6% ITO is a considerably stable transparent conductive oxide (385)
polypyrrole (PPy), PEDOT   PEDOT (1.35%), PPy (0.41%), PT (0.09%) PEDOT PCE was found to be comparable to that of a sputtered Au based reference device. (386)