Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Low‐Cost Industrial Organic Pigment Coating
Abstract
Abstract Surface passivation of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) using a low‐cost industrial organic pigment quinacridone (QA) is presented. The procedure involves solution processing a soluble derivative of QA, N , N ‐bis(tert‐butyloxycarbonyl)‐quinacridone (TBOC‐QA), followed by thermal annealing to convert TBOC‐QA into insoluble QA. With halide perovskite thin films coated by QA, PSCs based on methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) showed significantly improved performance with remarkable stability. A PCE of 21.1 % was achieved, which is much higher than 18.9 % recorded for the unmodified devices. The QA coating with exceptional insolubility and hydrophobicity also led to greatly enhanced contact angle from 35.6° for the pristine MAPbI 3 thin films to 77.2° for QA coated MAPbI 3 thin films. The stability of QA passivated MAPbI 3 perovskite thin films and PSCs were significantly enhanced, retaining about 90 % of the initial efficiencies after more than 1000 hours storage under ambient conditions.
- Authors:
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
- Materials Science and Engineering Program Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
- Department of Physics Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306 USA, Materials Science and Engineering Program Florida State University Tallahassee FL 32306 USA
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- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1724438
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Angewandte Chemie
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie Journal Volume: 133 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0044-8249
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
He, Qingquan, Worku, Michael, Liu, He, Lochner, Eric, Robb, Alex J., Lteif, Sandrine, Vellore Winfred, J. S. Raaj, Hanson, Kenneth, Schlenoff, Joseph B., Kim, Bumjoon J., and Ma, Biwu. Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Low‐Cost Industrial Organic Pigment Coating. Germany: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1002/ange.202012095.
He, Qingquan, Worku, Michael, Liu, He, Lochner, Eric, Robb, Alex J., Lteif, Sandrine, Vellore Winfred, J. S. Raaj, Hanson, Kenneth, Schlenoff, Joseph B., Kim, Bumjoon J., & Ma, Biwu. Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Low‐Cost Industrial Organic Pigment Coating. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202012095
He, Qingquan, Worku, Michael, Liu, He, Lochner, Eric, Robb, Alex J., Lteif, Sandrine, Vellore Winfred, J. S. Raaj, Hanson, Kenneth, Schlenoff, Joseph B., Kim, Bumjoon J., and Ma, Biwu. Fri .
"Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Low‐Cost Industrial Organic Pigment Coating". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202012095.
@article{osti_1724438,
title = {Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Low‐Cost Industrial Organic Pigment Coating},
author = {He, Qingquan and Worku, Michael and Liu, He and Lochner, Eric and Robb, Alex J. and Lteif, Sandrine and Vellore Winfred, J. S. Raaj and Hanson, Kenneth and Schlenoff, Joseph B. and Kim, Bumjoon J. and Ma, Biwu},
abstractNote = {Abstract Surface passivation of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) using a low‐cost industrial organic pigment quinacridone (QA) is presented. The procedure involves solution processing a soluble derivative of QA, N , N ‐bis(tert‐butyloxycarbonyl)‐quinacridone (TBOC‐QA), followed by thermal annealing to convert TBOC‐QA into insoluble QA. With halide perovskite thin films coated by QA, PSCs based on methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI 3 ) showed significantly improved performance with remarkable stability. A PCE of 21.1 % was achieved, which is much higher than 18.9 % recorded for the unmodified devices. The QA coating with exceptional insolubility and hydrophobicity also led to greatly enhanced contact angle from 35.6° for the pristine MAPbI 3 thin films to 77.2° for QA coated MAPbI 3 thin films. The stability of QA passivated MAPbI 3 perovskite thin films and PSCs were significantly enhanced, retaining about 90 % of the initial efficiencies after more than 1000 hours storage under ambient conditions.},
doi = {10.1002/ange.202012095},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie},
number = 5,
volume = 133,
place = {Germany},
year = {2020},
month = {11}
}
https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202012095
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