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The performance of this photovoltaic lags behind that of PSCs with metal electrodes, which is primarily ascribed to the lack of an efficient buffer layer\/carbon combination. Here, in this work, we systematically researched two typical anode structures, including polythiophene\/nickel oxide (P3HT\/NiOx) and 2,2\u2032,7,7\u2032-tetrakis-(N,N-di-4-methoxyphenylamino)-9,9\u2032-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD) as hole-transporting layers (HTLs) and blade-coated carbon (B-C) or a pressed self-standing carbon film (P-C) as the anode. Comprehensive characterizations reveal that pressing carbon on the P3HT\/NiOx HTL resulted in weak physical and electrical contacts, while blade-coated carbon on Spiro caused damage to the electrical properties of the organic HTL during the required annealing of the carbon film. However, the P3HT\/NiOx\/B-C and Spiro-OMeTAD\/P-C anode structures enabled remarkable photovoltaic performance under indoor weak light, with the champion efficiencies reaching 40.5 and 42.5%, respectively, for these two flexible PSCs. Through the systematic design and comparison of anode buffer layers, our work offers referential choice on the device structure for efficient flexible carbon-electrode PSCs that are promising for indoor photovoltaic application.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1021\/acsami.6c10376","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T13:02:22Z","timestamp":1789995742000},"page":"52703-52711","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Anode Buffer Layer Selection for Efficient Flexible Perovskite Indoor Photovoltaics"],"prefix":"10.1021","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Xu","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyue","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongzheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zihan","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5557-2434","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Chen","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yueyue","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yeheng","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gentian","family":"Yue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1602-0869","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Furui","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Henan University , , ,","place":["Kaifeng, China, 475004"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"316","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]]},"reference":[{"issue":"5","key":"2026093002065949300_cit1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/advs.201700780","article-title":"Organic\/Inorganic Metal Halide Perovskite Optoelectronic Devices beyond Solar Cells","volume":"5","author":"Sun","year":"2018","journal-title":"Adv. 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