Spontaneously supersaturated nucleation strategy for high reproducible and efficient perovskite solar cells

Li, Bo; Zhang, Qiqi; Zhang, Song; Ahmad, Zachary; Chidanguro, Tamuka; Davis, Andrew Hunter; Simon, Yoan C.; Gu, Xiaodan; Zheng, Weiwei; Pradhan, Nihar; Dai, Qilin

doi:10.1016/j.cej.2020.126998

Spontaneously supersaturated nucleation strategy for high reproducible and efficient perovskite solar cells

Journal Article · Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Chemical Engineering Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.126998· OSTI ID:1774208

Li, Bo ^[1]; Zhang, Qiqi ^[2]; Zhang, Song ^[3]; Ahmad, Zachary ^[3]; Chidanguro, Tamuka ^[3]; Davis, Andrew Hunter ^[4]; Simon, Yoan C. ^[3]; Gu, Xiaodan ^[3]; Zheng, Weiwei ^[4]; Pradhan, Nihar ^[2]; Dai, Qilin ^[2]

Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS (United States); Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Atmospheric Sciences, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 39217, United States
Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS (United States)
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)
Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)

High-quality perovskite films are predominantly prepared by anti-solvent assisted spin-coating method. How- ever, small device size and narrow operation window limit their applications in practical and scalable production. Here, a spontaneously supersaturated nucleation strategy is developed to fabricate high-quality perovskite films without any antisolvents. The rapid precipitation behavior of the precursor solutions could be triggered by the volatilization of methylamine ethanol at the initial film formation stage, forming uniform and compact intermediate phase films. Mirror-like large area (10 cm × 10 cm) methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI₃) perovskite films with micrometer-sized grains can be achieved by phase transition via annealing. The average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 19.4% is achieved for 0.1 cm² perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The 1 cm² device shows a PCE of 17.57% and retains 96.8% after aging for 39 days in the air with a relative humidity of 5–30%. The perovskite module based on the perovskite films prepared by our strategy exhibits a PCE of 13.13%. Here, the perovskite film fabrication method developed in this work shows high reproducibility of the fabrication process due to the spontaneous nucleation process. Meanwhile, it also exhibits significant potential in the application of scalable solution processing deposition techniques toward the commercialization of PSCs.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: NSF-PREM; National Science Foundation; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019361

OSTI ID:: 1774208

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1985425

Journal Information:: Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal Name: Chemical Engineering Journal Vol. 405; ISSN 1385-8947

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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