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Interfacial Sulfur Functionalization Anchoring SnO 2 and CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 for Enhanced Stability and Trap Passivation in Perovskite Solar Cells
Author(s) -
Wang Zhen,
Kamarudin Muhammad Akmal,
Huey Ng Chi,
Yang Fu,
Pandey Manish,
Kapil Gaurav,
Ma Tingli,
Hayase Shuzi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201801888
Subject(s) - surface modification , passivation , perovskite (structure) , materials science , sulfur , chemical engineering , inorganic chemistry , nanotechnology , chemistry , layer (electronics) , engineering , metallurgy
Trap states at the interface or in bulk perovskite materials critically influence perovskite solar cells performance and long‐term stability. Here, a strategy for efficiently passivating charge traps and mitigating interfacial recombination by SnO 2 surface sulfur functionalization is reported, which utilizes xanthate decomposition on the SnO 2 surface at low temperature. The results show that functionalized sulfur atoms can coordinate with under‐coordinated Pb 2+ ions near the interface. After device fabrication under more than 60 % humidity in ambient air, the efficiency of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) perovskite solar cells based on sulfur‐functionalized SnO 2 increased from 16.56 % to 18.41 % with suppressed hysteresis, which resulted from the accelerated interfacial charge transport kinetics and decreased traps in bulk perovskite by interfacial sulfur functionalization. Additionally, thermally stimulated current studies show the decreased trap density in the shallow trap area after interfacial sulfur functionalization. The interfacial sulfur functionalized solar cells without sealing also exhibited considerable retardation of solar cell degradation with only 10 % degradation after 70 days air storage. This work demonstrates a facile sulfur functionalization strategy by using xanthate decomposition on SnO 2 surfaces to obtain highly efficient perovskite solar cells.