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Issue 41, 2021

Interface modification of an electron transport layer using europium acetate for enhancing the performance of P3HT-based inorganic perovskite solar cells

Abstract

In recent years, although the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of thermally stable all-inorganic CsPbI3 perovskite solar cells (PSCs) had shown a great progress, the most reported CsPbI3 PSCs suffered from the large open-circuit voltage (Voc) loss, which is related to severe nonradiative recombination and a mismatch in energy level at the transport layer/perovskite interface. In this work, europium acetate (EuAc3) as a multifunction interface material is chosen to modify the TiO2/perovskite interface, the crystal quality of CsPbI3 perovskite films is improved, and both bulk and interfacial defects are reduced effectively. Meanwhile, the energy levels arrangement between TiO2 and CsPbI3 perovskites is also optimized, corresponding the raised built-in electric field afford a strength force to accelerate the transport and extraction of charge carriers from CsPbI3 perovskites to TiO2. As a result, the performance of CsPbI3 PSCs is largely enhanced with the PCE of 16.76%. When an Ag electrode was replaced by Au, the PCE further improves to 17.92%, which is the highest for CsPbI3 PSCs with P3HT as the HTL ever reported. Besides, the CsPbI3 PSC with the EuAc3 modification layer maintains 84% of the initial PCE under continuous UV irradiation for 250 h in a nitrogen filled glovebox, being obviously higher than the control devices with only 40% of the initial PCE after UV irradiation for 100 h in the same environment.

Graphical abstract: Interface modification of an electron transport layer using europium acetate for enhancing the performance of P3HT-based inorganic perovskite solar cells

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Aug 2021
Accepted
29 Sep 2021
First published
05 Oct 2021

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021,23, 23818-23826

Interface modification of an electron transport layer using europium acetate for enhancing the performance of P3HT-based inorganic perovskite solar cells

W. Ren, Y. Liu, Y. Wu, Q. Sun, Y. Cui and Y. Hao, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 23818 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03645A

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