Effects of formamidinium and bromide ion substitution in methylammonium lead triiodide toward high-performance perovskite solar cells
Abstract
Compositional engineering of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite has attracted great research interests recently for seeking a better perovskite system to address existed challenges, such as the thermal and moisture instability, anomalous hysteresis, and toxic lead contamination, etc. In this study, we systematically investigated the structural, optophysical, and photovoltaic properties of the compositional MAxFA1-xPb(IyBr1-y)3 perovskite by sequentially introducing FA+ and Br- ions into the parental MAPbI3 to elucidate their respective roles when they were inserted into the perovskite lattice. We unraveled that such dual compositional tuning in perovskite can improve the crystallinity of the resultant film and thus reduce its density of defect states as evidenced by admittance spectroscopy, resulting in a prolonged carrier lifetime over 500 ns. As a result, a promising average PCE (PCEAVG) of 17.34% was realized in the optimized MA0.7FA0.3Pb(I0.9Br0.1)3-based PVSC with little hysteresis and stable photocurrent output. More significantly, another compositional MA0.7FA0.3Pb(I0.8Br0.2)3 perovskite with a large bandgap of 1.69 eV can yield an impressively high PCEAVG over 15%. To the best of our knowledge, this performance is among the state-of-the-art large bandgap ( 1.7 eV) PVSCs reported so far, which paves the way for the development of high-performance tandem cells using efficient large bandgap PVSCs as themore »
- Authors:
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- University of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); Asian Office of Aerospace R&D; Boeing-Johnson Foundation; Washington Research Foundation Innovation Fellowship
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1343584
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1345431
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-UW-Jen-18
Journal ID: ISSN 2211-2855; PII: S2211285516000847
- Grant/Contract Number:
- EE0006710; N00014-14-1-0246; FA2386-11-1-4072
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nano Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2211-2855
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; perovskite solar cells; composition; formamidinium; bromine; nickel oxide
Citation Formats
Yang, Zhibin, Chueh, Chu -Chen, Liang, Po -Wei, Crump, Michael, Lin, Francis, Zhu, Zonglong, and Jen, Alex K. -Y. Effects of formamidinium and bromide ion substitution in methylammonium lead triiodide toward high-performance perovskite solar cells. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.02.033.
Yang, Zhibin, Chueh, Chu -Chen, Liang, Po -Wei, Crump, Michael, Lin, Francis, Zhu, Zonglong, & Jen, Alex K. -Y. Effects of formamidinium and bromide ion substitution in methylammonium lead triiodide toward high-performance perovskite solar cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.02.033
Yang, Zhibin, Chueh, Chu -Chen, Liang, Po -Wei, Crump, Michael, Lin, Francis, Zhu, Zonglong, and Jen, Alex K. -Y. Mon .
"Effects of formamidinium and bromide ion substitution in methylammonium lead triiodide toward high-performance perovskite solar cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.02.033. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1343584.
@article{osti_1343584,
title = {Effects of formamidinium and bromide ion substitution in methylammonium lead triiodide toward high-performance perovskite solar cells},
author = {Yang, Zhibin and Chueh, Chu -Chen and Liang, Po -Wei and Crump, Michael and Lin, Francis and Zhu, Zonglong and Jen, Alex K. -Y.},
abstractNote = {Compositional engineering of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite has attracted great research interests recently for seeking a better perovskite system to address existed challenges, such as the thermal and moisture instability, anomalous hysteresis, and toxic lead contamination, etc. In this study, we systematically investigated the structural, optophysical, and photovoltaic properties of the compositional MAxFA1-xPb(IyBr1-y)3 perovskite by sequentially introducing FA+ and Br- ions into the parental MAPbI3 to elucidate their respective roles when they were inserted into the perovskite lattice. We unraveled that such dual compositional tuning in perovskite can improve the crystallinity of the resultant film and thus reduce its density of defect states as evidenced by admittance spectroscopy, resulting in a prolonged carrier lifetime over 500 ns. As a result, a promising average PCE (PCEAVG) of 17.34% was realized in the optimized MA0.7FA0.3Pb(I0.9Br0.1)3-based PVSC with little hysteresis and stable photocurrent output. More significantly, another compositional MA0.7FA0.3Pb(I0.8Br0.2)3 perovskite with a large bandgap of 1.69 eV can yield an impressively high PCEAVG over 15%. To the best of our knowledge, this performance is among the state-of-the-art large bandgap ( 1.7 eV) PVSCs reported so far, which paves the way for the development of high-performance tandem cells using efficient large bandgap PVSCs as the top subcells. Lastly, this study not only manifests the pivotal roles of dual compositional tuning in MAxFA1-xPb(IyBr1-y)3 perovskites but also highlights the importance of compositional engineering for developing an even more efficient perovskite.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nanoen.2016.02.033},
journal = {Nano Energy},
number = C,
volume = 22,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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