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Title: Importance of Reducing Vapor Atmosphere in the Fabrication of Tin-Based Perovskite Solar Cells

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b10734· OSTI ID:1388144

Tin-based halide perovskite materials have been successfully employed in lead-free perovskite solar cells, but the tendency of these materials to form leakage pathways from p-type defect states, mainly Sn4+ and Sn vacancies, causes poor device reproducibility and limits the overall power conversion efficiencies. Here, we present an effective process that involves a reducing vapor atmosphere during the preparation of tin-based halide perovskite solar cells to solve this problem, using MASnI3, CsSnI3 and CsSnBr3 as the representative absorbers. This process enables the fabrication of remarkably improved solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 3.89%, 1.83% and 3.04% for MASnI3, CsSnI3 and CsSnBr3 respectively. The reducing vapor atmosphere process results in more than 20% reduction of Sn4+/Sn2+ ratios, which leads to greatly suppressed carrier recombination, to a level comparable to their lead-based counterparts. These results mark an important step towards a deeper understanding of the intrinsic tin-based halide perovskite materials, paving the way to the realization of low-cost and lead-free Sn-based halide perovskite solar cells.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001059
OSTI ID:
1388144
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 139, Issue 2; Related Information: ANSER partners with Northwestern University (lead); Argonne National Laboratory; University of Chicago; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yale University; ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 362 works
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