Boosting the performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cell by controlling the precursor purity of perovskite materials

Jingjing Chang; Hai Zhu; Bichen Li; Furkan Halis Isikgor; Yue Hao; Qinghua Xu; Jianyong Ouyang

doi:10.1039/c5ta08398b

Boosting the performance of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cell by controlling the precursor purity of perovskite materials

Jingjing Chang, Hai Zhu, Bichen Li, Furkan Halis Isikgor, Yue Hao, Qinghua Xu^*, Jianyong Ouyang

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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have received great attention due to their high power conversion efficiency and low fabrication cost. The perovskite layer is usually prepared from a solution of precursors. We found that the PbI₂ purity has a significant effect on the crystallinity, charge carrier dynamics, and photovoltaic properties of the perovskite films. Planar heterojunction PSCs using highly pure PbI₂ showed a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 16.4%, which was higher than that of control PSCs with low purity PbI₂ by 30-40%. Steady-state photoluminescence (PL), time-resolved PL (TR-PL) and femtosecond transient absorption measurements (FS-TA) revealed that impurities can lower the electron lifetime and increase the non-radiative recombination. This study implies that the PCEs of the perovskite solar cell devices could be further boosted by controlling the precursor purity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	887-893
Number of pages	7
Journal	JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta08398b
State	Published - 2016

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