Journal
JOULE
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 1464-1477Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2019.04.005
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA2386-18-1-4094]
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) [N00014-17-1-2,484]
- UC Solar Program [MRPI 328368]
- Jinzhou Solargiga Energy in China
- Natural Science Foundation of China [91733301]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)
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To increase the commercial prospects of metal halide perovskite solar cells, there is a need for simple, cost-effective, and generalized approaches that mitigate their intrinsic thermal instability. Here we show that 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, a commodity chemical with two conjugated carboxyl groups better known by its common name caffeine, improves the performance and thermal stability of perovskite solar cells based on both MAPbI(3) and CsFAMAPbI(3) active layers. The strong interaction between caffeine and Pb2+ ions serves as a molecular lock'' that increases the activation energy during film crystallization, delivering a perovskite film with preferred orientation, improved electronic properties, reduced ion migration, and greatly enhanced thermal stability. Planar n-i-p solar cells based on caffeine-incorporated pure MAPbI(3) perovskites, which are notoriously unstable, exhibit a champion-stabilized efficiency of 19.8% and retain over 85% of their efficiency under continuous annealing at 85 degrees C in nitrogen.
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