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Title: Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices

Abstract

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) exhibited remarkable progress for small aperture area cells, however, the performance of its counterpart, large aperture area cells, lags due to non-uniform and defective perovskite layers. Here, we fabricate reproducible large area homogeneous perovskite films at room temperature and without controlling humidity (up to 40 % RH) with a slot die coater on a c-TiO2 layer deposited using a large area chemical bath. A new artificial peptide – sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide (F-GLU-S) was employed to modify the slot-die coated perovskite surface, grain boundaries and electronic defects. The multi-functional F-GLU-S with carbonyl, carboxyl, sulfonyl, benzene, and chloro groups was capable of strongly interacting with the perovskite layer and repairing the uncoordinated Pb2+ ions and halide vacancies. As a result, both the electron and hole densities of defects were significantly suppressed; consequently, the non-radiative recombination was effectively suppressed for the modified device which can be explicitly seen in the device performance where both Voc and FF of the modified device improved considerably. Therefore, F-GLU-S modified slot-die coated MAPbI3 – based devices demonstrated outstanding performance of 21.44 % PCE with a Voc of 1.13 V, Jsc of 24.64 cm–2, and FF 76.99 %. Furthermore, F-GLU-S passivation impeded the infiltration of moisturemore » and oxygen due to its hydrophobic nature and defect repair potential. As a result, the modified device retained above 92 % of its original PCE after 720 h in air (room temperature and 40–60 % RH).« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [5];  [4];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS (United States)
  2. Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States)
  3. Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States)
  4. Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
  5. Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1958939
Grant/Contract Number:  
EE0010242; 1757220
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Chemical Engineering Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 457; Journal ID: ISSN 1385-8947
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Slot-die coating; γ-AApeptide; Defects; Amino acid passivation; Chemical bath deposited c-TiO2; Perovskite powder

Citation Formats

Abate, Seid Yimer, Yang, Ziqi, Jha, Surabhi, Ma, Guorong, Ouyang, Zhongliang, Zhang, Haixin, Muhammad, Shafi, Pradhan, Nihar, Gu, Xiaodan, Patton, Derek, Wang, Kun, Li, Dawen, Cai, Jianfeng, and Dai, Qilin. Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2022.141199.
Abate, Seid Yimer, Yang, Ziqi, Jha, Surabhi, Ma, Guorong, Ouyang, Zhongliang, Zhang, Haixin, Muhammad, Shafi, Pradhan, Nihar, Gu, Xiaodan, Patton, Derek, Wang, Kun, Li, Dawen, Cai, Jianfeng, & Dai, Qilin. Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.141199
Abate, Seid Yimer, Yang, Ziqi, Jha, Surabhi, Ma, Guorong, Ouyang, Zhongliang, Zhang, Haixin, Muhammad, Shafi, Pradhan, Nihar, Gu, Xiaodan, Patton, Derek, Wang, Kun, Li, Dawen, Cai, Jianfeng, and Dai, Qilin. Wed . "Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.141199. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1958939.
@article{osti_1958939,
title = {Room temperature slot-die coated perovskite layer modified with sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide for high performance perovskite solar devices},
author = {Abate, Seid Yimer and Yang, Ziqi and Jha, Surabhi and Ma, Guorong and Ouyang, Zhongliang and Zhang, Haixin and Muhammad, Shafi and Pradhan, Nihar and Gu, Xiaodan and Patton, Derek and Wang, Kun and Li, Dawen and Cai, Jianfeng and Dai, Qilin},
abstractNote = {Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) exhibited remarkable progress for small aperture area cells, however, the performance of its counterpart, large aperture area cells, lags due to non-uniform and defective perovskite layers. Here, we fabricate reproducible large area homogeneous perovskite films at room temperature and without controlling humidity (up to 40 % RH) with a slot die coater on a c-TiO2 layer deposited using a large area chemical bath. A new artificial peptide – sulfonyl-γ-AApeptide (F-GLU-S) was employed to modify the slot-die coated perovskite surface, grain boundaries and electronic defects. The multi-functional F-GLU-S with carbonyl, carboxyl, sulfonyl, benzene, and chloro groups was capable of strongly interacting with the perovskite layer and repairing the uncoordinated Pb2+ ions and halide vacancies. As a result, both the electron and hole densities of defects were significantly suppressed; consequently, the non-radiative recombination was effectively suppressed for the modified device which can be explicitly seen in the device performance where both Voc and FF of the modified device improved considerably. Therefore, F-GLU-S modified slot-die coated MAPbI3 – based devices demonstrated outstanding performance of 21.44 % PCE with a Voc of 1.13 V, Jsc of 24.64 cm–2, and FF 76.99 %. Furthermore, F-GLU-S passivation impeded the infiltration of moisture and oxygen due to its hydrophobic nature and defect repair potential. As a result, the modified device retained above 92 % of its original PCE after 720 h in air (room temperature and 40–60 % RH).},
doi = {10.1016/j.cej.2022.141199},
journal = {Chemical Engineering Journal},
number = ,
volume = 457,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Wed Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}

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