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ACS ENERGY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 12, Pages 4265-4273Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01998
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- Office of Naval Research [N00014-20-1-2587]
- National Science Foundation [NNCI1542101]
- Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute
- Clean Energy Institute
- NSF MRSEC [DMR-1719797]
- Rank Prize Funds
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This study demonstrates that adding ethylenediamine (EDA) to perovskite precursor solutions can improve the performance and stability of high-bromide-content perovskite photovoltaic devices. The addition of EDA improves film homogeneity and suppresses phase instability, resulting in stable films for over 100 days in ambient conditions. The study also shows that the presence of imidazolinium during crystallization is crucial for the improved perovskite thin-film properties.
We show that adding ethylenediamine (EDA) to perovskite precursor solutions improves the photovoltaic device performance and material stability of high-bromide-content, methylammonium-free, formamidinium cesium lead halide perovskites FA1-xCsxPb(I1-yBry)3, which are currently of interest for perovskite-on-Si tandem solar cells. Using spectroscopy and hyperspectral microscopy, we show that the additive improves film homogeneity and suppresses the phase instability that is ubiquitous in high-Br perovskite formulations, producing films that remain stable for over 100 days in ambient conditions. With the addition of 1 mol % EDA, we demonstrate 1.69 eV-gap perovskite single junction p-i-n devices with a VOC of 1.22 V and a champion maximum power-point-tracked power conversion efficiency of 18.8%, comparable to the best reported methylammonium-free perovskites. Using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques, we show that EDA reacts with FA+ in solution, rapidly and quantitatively forming imidazolinium cations. It is the presence of imidazolinium during crystallization which drives the improved perovskite thin-film properties.
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