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Damp heat-stable perovskite solar cells with tailored-dimensionality 2D/3D heterojunctions.

Randi AzmiEsma UgurAkmaral SeitkhanFaisal AljamaanAnand Selvin SubbiahJiang LiuGeorge T HarrisonMohamad Insan NugrahaMathan K EswaranMaxime BabicsYuan ChenFuzong XuThomas G AllenAtteq Ur RehmanChien-Lung WangThomas D AnthopoulosUdo SchwingenschlöglMichele De BastianiErkan AydinStefaan De Wolf
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2022)
If perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) are to be commercialized, they must achieve long-term stability, which is usually assessed with accelerated degradation tests. One of the persistent obstacles for PSCs has been successfully passing the damp-heat test (85°C and 85% relative humidity), which is the standard for verifying the stability of commercial photovoltaic (PV) modules. We fabricated damp heat-stable PSCs by tailoring the dimensional fragments of two-dimensional perovskite layers formed at room temperature with oleylammonium iodide molecules; these layers passivate the perovskite surface at the electron-selective contact. The resulting inverted PSCs deliver a 24.3% PCE and retain >95% of their initial value after >1000 hours at damp-heat test conditions, thereby meeting one of the critical industrial stability standards for PV modules.
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