Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells
Achieving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is arguably the most important challenge required to enable widespread commercialization. Understanding the perovskite crystallization process and its direct impact on device stability is critical to achieving this goal. The commonly employ...
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| author | McMeekin, DP Holzhey, P Fürer, SO Harvey, SP Schelhas, LT Ball, JM Mahesh, S Seo, S Hawkins, N Lu, J Johnston, MB Berry, JJ Bach, U Snaith, HJ |
| author_facet | McMeekin, DP Holzhey, P Fürer, SO Harvey, SP Schelhas, LT Ball, JM Mahesh, S Seo, S Hawkins, N Lu, J Johnston, MB Berry, JJ Bach, U Snaith, HJ |
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| description | Achieving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is arguably the most important challenge required to enable widespread commercialization. Understanding the perovskite crystallization process and its direct impact on device stability is critical to achieving this goal. The commonly employed dimethyl-formamide/dimethyl-sulfoxide solvent preparation method results in a poor crystal quality and microstructure of the polycrystalline perovskite films. In this work, we introduce a high-temperature dimethyl-sulfoxide-free processing method that utilizes dimethylammonium chloride as an additive to control the perovskite intermediate precursor phases. By controlling the crystallization sequence, we tune the grain size, texturing, orientation (corner-up versus face-up) and crystallinity of the formamidinium (FA)/caesium (FA)yCs1–yPb(IxBr1–x)3 perovskite system. A population of encapsulated devices showed improved operational stability, with a median T80 lifetime (the time over which the device power conversion efficiency decreases to 80% of its initial value) for the steady-state power conversion efficiency of 1,190 hours, and a champion device showed a T80 of 1,410 hours, under simulated sunlight at 65 °C in air, under open-circuit conditions. This work highlights the importance of material quality in achieving the long-term operational stability of perovskite optoelectronic devices. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:a2955c35-87d4-4681-8566-23405b429c9f2023-06-01T09:49:34ZIntermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cellsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:a2955c35-87d4-4681-8566-23405b429c9fEnglishSymplectic ElementsSpringer Nature2022McMeekin, DPHolzhey, PFürer, SOHarvey, SPSchelhas, LTBall, JMMahesh, SSeo, SHawkins, NLu, JJohnston, MBBerry, JJBach, USnaith, HJAchieving the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells is arguably the most important challenge required to enable widespread commercialization. Understanding the perovskite crystallization process and its direct impact on device stability is critical to achieving this goal. The commonly employed dimethyl-formamide/dimethyl-sulfoxide solvent preparation method results in a poor crystal quality and microstructure of the polycrystalline perovskite films. In this work, we introduce a high-temperature dimethyl-sulfoxide-free processing method that utilizes dimethylammonium chloride as an additive to control the perovskite intermediate precursor phases. By controlling the crystallization sequence, we tune the grain size, texturing, orientation (corner-up versus face-up) and crystallinity of the formamidinium (FA)/caesium (FA)yCs1–yPb(IxBr1–x)3 perovskite system. A population of encapsulated devices showed improved operational stability, with a median T80 lifetime (the time over which the device power conversion efficiency decreases to 80% of its initial value) for the steady-state power conversion efficiency of 1,190 hours, and a champion device showed a T80 of 1,410 hours, under simulated sunlight at 65 °C in air, under open-circuit conditions. This work highlights the importance of material quality in achieving the long-term operational stability of perovskite optoelectronic devices. |
| spellingShingle | McMeekin, DP Holzhey, P Fürer, SO Harvey, SP Schelhas, LT Ball, JM Mahesh, S Seo, S Hawkins, N Lu, J Johnston, MB Berry, JJ Bach, U Snaith, HJ Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title | Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title_full | Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title_fullStr | Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title_short | Intermediate-phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
| title_sort | intermediate phase engineering via dimethylammonium cation additive for stable perovskite solar cells |
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