A High Mobility Conjugated Polymer Enables Air and Thermally Stable CsPbI2Br Perovskite Solar Cells with an Efficiency Exceeding 15%

Inorganic cesium lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs), such as CsPbI2Br, have made a striking breakthrough with a power conversion efficiency of over 16%. However, CsPbI2Br is known to be very sensitive to moisture, and the intrinsic long-term stability of CsPbI2Br film remains a critical challenge. Interface engineering has been proven to be an effective way for solving the instability-to-moisture issue and enhancing the performance of inorganic-organic hybrid PSCs, while there are a few reports on interface engineering for inorganic PSCs. Here, a conjugated polymer, poly(N-alkyldiketopyrrolo-pyrrole dithienylthieno[3,2-b]thio-phene) (DPP-DTT), with high mobility is introduced as a novel interface passivation for CsPbI2Br PSCs, which can significantly reduce nonradiative recombination in perovskite, leading to significant enhancement in both efficiency and stability of CsPbI2Br PSCs. Through DPP-DTT passivation, a champion efficiency of 15.14% is obtained in CsPbI2Br PSCs. Moreover, the Lewis base DPP-DTT can serve as an ultrahydrophobic agent to hold the photovoltaic performance of CsPbI2Br PSCs under ambient environment with humidity or thermal stress. These results provide a simple while highly effective route of fabricating the highly efficient and stable inorganic PSCs.