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Title: Simultaneous Bottom-Up Interfacial and Bulk Defect Passivation in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using Nonconjugated Small-Molecule Electrolytes

Abstract

Recent perovskite solar cell (PSC) advances have pursued strategies for reducing interfacial energetic mismatches to mitigate energy losses, as well as to minimize interfacial and bulk defects and ion vacancies to maximize charge transfer. In this work, nonconjugated multi-zwitterionic small-molecule electrolytes (NSEs) are introduced, which act not only as charge-extracting layers for barrier-free charge collection at planar triple cation PSC cathodes but also passivate charged defects at the perovskite bulk/interface via a spontaneous bottom-up passivation effect. Implementing these synergistic properties affords NSE-based planar PSCs that deliver a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 21.18% with a maximum VOC = 1.19 V, in combination with suppressed hysteresis and enhanced environmental, thermal, and light-soaking stability. Thus, this work demonstrates that the bottom-up, simultaneous interfacial and bulk trap passivation using NSE modifiers is a promising strategy to overcome outstanding issues impeding further PSC advances.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Materials Research Science and Engineering Center; Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu (China)
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Ningbo (China). Ningbo Inst. of Materials Technology and Engineering
  3. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
  4. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringThe NUANCE CenterNorthwestern University Evanston IL 60208 USA
  5. Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu (China)
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Research Org.:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes (LEAP); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Key Research and Development Program of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); China Scholarship Council
OSTI Identifier:
1767509
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1556796
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0001059; DMR-1720139; ECCS-1542205; 2017YFE0106000; 74433KYSB20160065; 2015B11002; 2016B10005; 2018YFB0407102; 61421002; 61675041; 51703019
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 31; Journal Issue: 40; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; catalysis (homogeneous); catalysis (heterogeneous); solar (photovoltaic); solar (fuels); optics; phonons; photosynthesis (natural and artificial); bio-inspired; hydrogen and fuel cells; charge transport; magnetism and spin physics; materials and chemistry by design; mesostructured materials; synthesis (novel materials); synthesis (self-assembly); synthesis (scalable processing); bottom-up passivation; electron-transport layer; perovskite solar cells; zwitterions

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Zheng, Ding, Peng, Ruixiang, Wang, Gang, Logsdon, Jenna Leigh, Wang, Binghao, Hu, Xiaobing, Chen, Yao, Dravid, Vinayak P., Wasielewski, Michael R., Yu, Junsheng, Huang, Wei, Ge, Ziyi, Marks, Tobin J., and Facchetti, Antonio. Simultaneous Bottom-Up Interfacial and Bulk Defect Passivation in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using Nonconjugated Small-Molecule Electrolytes. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201903239.
Zheng, Ding, Peng, Ruixiang, Wang, Gang, Logsdon, Jenna Leigh, Wang, Binghao, Hu, Xiaobing, Chen, Yao, Dravid, Vinayak P., Wasielewski, Michael R., Yu, Junsheng, Huang, Wei, Ge, Ziyi, Marks, Tobin J., & Facchetti, Antonio. Simultaneous Bottom-Up Interfacial and Bulk Defect Passivation in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using Nonconjugated Small-Molecule Electrolytes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201903239
Zheng, Ding, Peng, Ruixiang, Wang, Gang, Logsdon, Jenna Leigh, Wang, Binghao, Hu, Xiaobing, Chen, Yao, Dravid, Vinayak P., Wasielewski, Michael R., Yu, Junsheng, Huang, Wei, Ge, Ziyi, Marks, Tobin J., and Facchetti, Antonio. Mon . "Simultaneous Bottom-Up Interfacial and Bulk Defect Passivation in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using Nonconjugated Small-Molecule Electrolytes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201903239. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1767509.
@article{osti_1767509,
title = {Simultaneous Bottom-Up Interfacial and Bulk Defect Passivation in Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells using Nonconjugated Small-Molecule Electrolytes},
author = {Zheng, Ding and Peng, Ruixiang and Wang, Gang and Logsdon, Jenna Leigh and Wang, Binghao and Hu, Xiaobing and Chen, Yao and Dravid, Vinayak P. and Wasielewski, Michael R. and Yu, Junsheng and Huang, Wei and Ge, Ziyi and Marks, Tobin J. and Facchetti, Antonio},
abstractNote = {Recent perovskite solar cell (PSC) advances have pursued strategies for reducing interfacial energetic mismatches to mitigate energy losses, as well as to minimize interfacial and bulk defects and ion vacancies to maximize charge transfer. In this work, nonconjugated multi-zwitterionic small-molecule electrolytes (NSEs) are introduced, which act not only as charge-extracting layers for barrier-free charge collection at planar triple cation PSC cathodes but also passivate charged defects at the perovskite bulk/interface via a spontaneous bottom-up passivation effect. Implementing these synergistic properties affords NSE-based planar PSCs that deliver a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 21.18% with a maximum VOC = 1.19 V, in combination with suppressed hysteresis and enhanced environmental, thermal, and light-soaking stability. Thus, this work demonstrates that the bottom-up, simultaneous interfacial and bulk trap passivation using NSE modifiers is a promising strategy to overcome outstanding issues impeding further PSC advances.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201903239},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 40,
volume = 31,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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