Surface grain boundary passivation via mixed antisolvent and PC 61 BM assistant for stable perovskite solar cells.
13 February 2019
Abstract
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted intense research interest in the last few years due to their excellent properties. However, the trap states at grain boundary (GBs) of perovskite films lead to charge recombination and perovskite film decomposition, which deteriorate the stability of PSCs.
It has been demonstrated that the GBs passivation is an effective way to eliminate trap states and enhance the stability of PSCs. In this work, ethyl acetate (EA) and chlorobenzene (CB) were used as anti-solvent, mixing with phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PC61BM) to replace pure antisolvent CB to control the GBs passivation of perovskite film.
Meanwhile, enhanced interfacial hydrophobic characteristic effectively restricted the penetration of moisture. Correspondingly, with optimizing the volume ratio of EA/CB, the power conversion efficiency of PSCs based on CH3NH3PbI3 increased from 14.4 to 16.1% and the stability is greatly improved.
This shows the adoption of a mixed solvent for EA and CB contained PC61BM as the solute can be used as an efficient tactic to passivate the surface crystal boundary, improve charge carrier transportation and device performance.
Citation
Mao, H., Huang, Y., Ma, Z., Jin, L., Tian, L., Li, Y., Yu, H. and Peng, C., Surface grain boundary passivation via mixed antisolvent and PC 61 BM assistant for stable perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, pp.1-10.
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