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Efficient Tin-Lead Perovskite Solar Cells with a Ultrawide Usage Windows of Precursor Solution Opened by SnF 2 .

Xiaoyun WanCunyun XuHao WangZezhuan JiangFuling LiGaobo XuZhongjun DaiXiaofeng HeQun Liang Song
Published in: Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2024)
High quality tin-lead perovskite solar cells (Sn─Pb PSCs) can be fabricated via simple solution processing methods. However, the instability of precursor solutions and their narrow usage windows still pose challenges in manufacturing efficient and reproducible Sn─Pb PSCs, hindering the commercialization of PSCs. Fluorine tin (SnF 2 ) is widely used as an antioxidant to improve the crystallinity of perovskite. In this study, another role of SnF 2 as a stabilizer is found to restrain the deprotonation of methylammonium iodide (MAI) in the precursor solution, which improves their stability and expands their usage windows. Due to the inhibition of SnF 2 on oxidation and deprotonation, stable large-sized colloidal clusters form gradually in perovskite precursor solution during aging, leading to uniform nucleation/crystallization during film growth, significantly reducing the roughness and defect density in the films. Because of the competitive deprotonation and oxidation process of Sn 2+ , the benefit of larger cluster maximizes after about ten days storage of precursor solution. The champion efficiency of Sn─Pb PSCs prepared with 10 days aged precursor solution is 22.00%. High performance of devices fabricated with precursor solution stored for even ≈40 days discloses the wide usage windows of precursor solution with SnF 2 additive.
Keyphrases
  • perovskite solar cells
  • room temperature
  • solid state
  • heavy metals
  • hydrogen peroxide
  • nitric oxide
  • high efficiency
  • electron transfer