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Title: Defect Passivation of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites by Diammonium Iodide toward High-Performance Photovoltaic Devices

Journal Article · · ACS Energy Letters
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  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; University of Washington
  2. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
  3. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry

The polycrystalline feature of solutionprocessed perovskite film and its ionic nature inevitably incur substantial crystallographic defects, especially at the film surface and the grain boundaries (GBs). Here, a simple defect passivation method was exploited by post-treating CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) film with a rationally selected diammonium iodide. The molecular structure of the used diammonium iodide was discovered to play a critical role in affecting the phase purity of treated MAPbI3. Both NH3I(CH2)4NH3I and NH3I(CH2)2O(CH2)2NH3I (EDBE) induce three-dimensional (3D) to two-dimensional (2D) perovskite phase transformation during the treatment while only NH3I(CH2)8NH3I (C8) successfully passivates perovskite surface and GBs without forming 2D perovskite because of the elevated activation energy arising from its unique anti-gauche isomerization. In conclusion, defect passivation of MAPbI3 was clearly confirmed by scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) studies, which results in the reduced recombination loss in derived devices. Consequently, the perovskite solar cell with C8 passivation showed a much improved power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 17.60% compared to the control device PCE of 14.64%.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Asian Office of Aerospace R&D; National Science Foundation (NSF); Office of Naval Research; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Contributing Organization:
Boeing-Johnson Foundation; Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
Grant/Contract Number:
EE0006710
OSTI ID:
1343582
Report Number(s):
DOE-UW-Jen--16
Journal Information:
ACS Energy Letters, Journal Name: ACS Energy Letters Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 1; ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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