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This work was supported in part by the Comunidad de Madrid under the SINFOTON2-CM Research Program under Grant S2018/NMT-4326-SINFOTON2-CM; and in part by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos under Projects with Research Reference M2417, Reference M2180, and Reference M2363, under Research Program Programa de Fomento y Desarrollo de la Investigacion.

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Perez-Martinez, JcCorresponding AuthorMartin-Martin, DAuthorDel Pozo, GAuthorArredondo, BAuthorHernandez-Balaguera, EAuthorRomero, BAuthor

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Validation of Mazhari's Equivalent Circuit Model for Perovskites Solar Cells With S-Shaped J-V Curves

Publicated to:Ieee Transactions On Electron Devices. 69 (10): 1-0 - 2022-10-01 69(10), DOI: 10.1109/TED.2022.3198386

Authors: Carlos Perez-Martinez, Jose; Martin-Martin, Diego; del Pozo, Gonzalo; Arredondo, Belen; Hernandez-Balaguera, Enrique; Romero, Beatriz

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Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Elect Technol, Mostoles 28933, Spain - Author

Abstract

The appearance of kinks in the fourth quadrant of current-voltage curves decreases dramatically the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells (SCs). These S-shaped J-V curves have been successfully reproduced using different lumped-parameter equivalent circuits, composed of two or more diodes. In this work, Mazhari's three-diode equivalent circuit is used to model the S-shaped J-V curves of perovskite SCs numerically simulated with Silvaco ATLAS TCAD. The simulated cell structure is fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/TiO2/MAPbl(3)/2,2 ,7,7 -tetrakis [N,N-di (4-methoxyphenyl) amino]-9, 9 -spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD)/Au and, in order to reproduce J-V curves with a kink, perovskite carrier mobility has been decreased below 0.25 cm(2) /(V. s) and defect density in the active layer has been increased above 1 x 10(14) cm (3) . For each parameter, J-V curves have been simulated for different AM1.5 irradiation levels, from dark conditions up to 2 suns. For each device, a set of circuital parameters has been obtained independent of irradiation level. The dependence of Mazhari's circuit parameters on both carrier mobility and defect density will be discussed.

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Ieee Transactions On Electron Devices due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 66/160, thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category Physics, Applied. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q2 para la agencia Scopus (SJR) en la categoría Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-07-16:

  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 2

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-16:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 7.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 13 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Pérez Martínez, José Carlos) and Last Author (Romero Herrero, Beatriz).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Pérez Martínez, José Carlos.