Molecular Interaction Regulates the Performance and Longevity of Defect Passivation for Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells
Abstract
Defect passivation constitutes one of the most commonly used strategies to fabricate highly efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the durability of the passivation effects under harsh operational conditions has not been extensively studied regardless of the weak and vulnerable secondary bonding between the molecular passivation agents and perovskite crystals. Here, we incorporated strategically designed passivating agents to investigate the effect of their interaction energies on the perovskite crystals and correlated these with the performance and longevity of the passivation effects. We unraveled that the passivation agents with a stronger interaction energy are advantageous not only for effective defect passivation but also to suppress defect migration. The prototypical PSCs treated with the optimal passivation agent exhibited superior performance and operational stability, retaining 81.9 and 85.3% of their initial performance under continuous illumination or nitrogen at 85 °C after 1008 h, respectively, while the reference device completely degraded during that time. Furthermore, this work provides important insights into designing operationally durable defect passivation agents for perovskite optoelectronic devices.
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- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Nanjing Univ. (China)
- Hanyang Univ., Seoul (Korea)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea)
- Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon (Korea)
- Nanjing Univ. (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1714372
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0008751; N00014-17-1-2484; NRF-2020R1F1A1067223
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 142; Journal Issue: 47; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Additives; Passivation; Solar cells; Defects; Perovskites
Citation Formats
Zhao, Yepin, Zhu, Pengchen, Huang, Shu, Tan, Shaun, Wang, Minhuan, Wang, Rui, Xue, Jingjing, Han, Tae-Hee, Lee, Sung-Joon, Zhang, Anni, Huang, Tianyi, Cheng, Pei, Meng, Dong, Lee, Jin-Wook, Marian, Jaime, Zhu, Jia, and Yang, Yang. Molecular Interaction Regulates the Performance and Longevity of Defect Passivation for Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.0c09560.
Zhao, Yepin, Zhu, Pengchen, Huang, Shu, Tan, Shaun, Wang, Minhuan, Wang, Rui, Xue, Jingjing, Han, Tae-Hee, Lee, Sung-Joon, Zhang, Anni, Huang, Tianyi, Cheng, Pei, Meng, Dong, Lee, Jin-Wook, Marian, Jaime, Zhu, Jia, & Yang, Yang. Molecular Interaction Regulates the Performance and Longevity of Defect Passivation for Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09560
Zhao, Yepin, Zhu, Pengchen, Huang, Shu, Tan, Shaun, Wang, Minhuan, Wang, Rui, Xue, Jingjing, Han, Tae-Hee, Lee, Sung-Joon, Zhang, Anni, Huang, Tianyi, Cheng, Pei, Meng, Dong, Lee, Jin-Wook, Marian, Jaime, Zhu, Jia, and Yang, Yang. Mon .
"Molecular Interaction Regulates the Performance and Longevity of Defect Passivation for Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09560. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1714372.
@article{osti_1714372,
title = {Molecular Interaction Regulates the Performance and Longevity of Defect Passivation for Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells},
author = {Zhao, Yepin and Zhu, Pengchen and Huang, Shu and Tan, Shaun and Wang, Minhuan and Wang, Rui and Xue, Jingjing and Han, Tae-Hee and Lee, Sung-Joon and Zhang, Anni and Huang, Tianyi and Cheng, Pei and Meng, Dong and Lee, Jin-Wook and Marian, Jaime and Zhu, Jia and Yang, Yang},
abstractNote = {Defect passivation constitutes one of the most commonly used strategies to fabricate highly efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the durability of the passivation effects under harsh operational conditions has not been extensively studied regardless of the weak and vulnerable secondary bonding between the molecular passivation agents and perovskite crystals. Here, we incorporated strategically designed passivating agents to investigate the effect of their interaction energies on the perovskite crystals and correlated these with the performance and longevity of the passivation effects. We unraveled that the passivation agents with a stronger interaction energy are advantageous not only for effective defect passivation but also to suppress defect migration. The prototypical PSCs treated with the optimal passivation agent exhibited superior performance and operational stability, retaining 81.9 and 85.3% of their initial performance under continuous illumination or nitrogen at 85 °C after 1008 h, respectively, while the reference device completely degraded during that time. Furthermore, this work provides important insights into designing operationally durable defect passivation agents for perovskite optoelectronic devices.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.0c09560},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 47,
volume = 142,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}
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