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Exploring Inorganic Binary Alkaline Halide to Passivate Defects in Low‐Temperature‐Processed Planar‐Structure Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells
Author(s) -
Liu Xu,
Zhang Yuanfang,
Shi Lei,
Liu Ziheng,
Huang Jialiang,
Yun Jae Sung,
Zeng Yiyu,
Pu Aobo,
Sun Kaiwen,
Hameiri Ziv,
Stride John A.,
Seidel Jan,
Green Martin A.,
Hao Xiaojing
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
advanced energy materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.08
H-Index - 220
eISSN - 1614-6840
pISSN - 1614-6832
DOI - 10.1002/aenm.201800138
Subject(s) - passivation , materials science , perovskite (structure) , halide , hysteresis , planar , ionic bonding , solar cell , carrier lifetime , optoelectronics , open circuit voltage , chemical engineering , inorganic chemistry , ion , nanotechnology , voltage , silicon , chemistry , condensed matter physics , electrical engineering , layer (electronics) , physics , computer graphics (images) , organic chemistry , computer science , engineering
Planar perovskite solar cells obtained by low‐temperature solution processing are of great promise, given a high compatibility with flexible substrates and perovskite‐based tandem devices, whilst benefitting from relatively simple manufacturing methods. However, ionic defects at surfaces usually cause detrimental carrier recombination, which links to one of dominant losses in device performance, slow transient responses, and notorious hysteresis. Here, it is shown that several different types of ionic defects can be simultaneously passivated by simple inorganic binary alkaline halide salts with their cations and anions. Compared to previous literature reports, this work demonstrates a promising passivation technology for perovskite solar cells. The efficient defect passivation significantly suppresses the recombination at the SnO 2 /perovskite interface, contributing to an increase in the open‐circuit voltage, the fast response of steady‐state efficiency, and the elimination of hysteresis. By this strong leveraging of multiple‐element passivation, low‐temperature‐processed, planar‐structured perovskite solar cells of 20.5% efficiencies, having negligible hysteresis, are obtained. Moreover, this defect‐passivation enhances the stability of solar cells with efficiency beyond 20%, retaining 90% of their initial performance after 30 d. This approach aims at developing the concept of defect engineering, which can be expanded to multiple‐element passivation from monoelement counterparts using simple and low‐cost inorganic materials.