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Efficient Grain Boundary Suture by Low-Cost Tetra-ammonium Zinc Phthalocyanine for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells with Expanded Photoresponse.

Jing CaoCongping LiXudong LvXiaoxia FengRuiqian MengYiying WuYu Tang
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2018)
Defects within the grain boundaries (GBs) of halide perovskite films make fabrication of efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) highly challenging. Here, a low-cost tetra-ammonium zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) was used to post-treat the MAPbI3 (MA = CH3NH3) film. Two-dimensional (ZnPc)0.5MA n-1Pb nI3 n+1 was successfully constructed within the GBs of MAPbI3 film achieving a GBs suture for passivating the defects in GBs. Time-resolved photoluminescence showed that the modification increased the decay time from 44 to 57 ns indicating the passivation of GBs reduces trap-assisted recombination. The PSCs with modified perovskite exhibited increased photovoltage, and the best efficiency was improved up to 20.3%. More importantly, the long-term stability of the responding PSCs against humidity and heating was further improved unprecedentedly. Moreover, the modified MAPbI3 films revealed a self-repairing capability under mild heating. This work provided a novel insight into ongoing fabrication of efficient and stable PSCs by the efficient GBs suture with low-cost phthalocyanine.
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