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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 35, Pages 11445-11452Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b06658
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- ANSER Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001059]
- MRSEC program at the Materials Research Center of the National Science Foundation [NSF DMR-1121262]
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center of the National Science Foundation [EEC-0118025/003]
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Organo-lead halide perovskite solar cells have gained enormous significance and have now achieved power conversion efficiencies of similar to 20%. However, the potential toxicity of lead in these systems raises environmental concerns for widespread deployment. Here we investigate solvent effects on the crystallization of the lead-free methylammonium tin triiodide (CH3NH3SnI3) perovskite films in a solution growth process. Highly uniform, pinhole-free perovskite films are obtained from a dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution via a transitional SnI2 center dot 3DMSO intermediate phase. This high-quality perovskite film enables the realization of heterojunction depleted solar cells based on mesoporous TiO2 layer but in the absence of any hole-transporting material with an unprecedented photocurrent up to 21 mA cm(-2). Charge extraction and transient photovoltage decay measurements reveal high carrier densities in the CH3NH3SnI3 perovskite device which are one order of magnitude larger than CH3NH3PbI3-based devices but with comparable recombination lifetimes in both devices. The relatively high background dark carrier density of the Sn-based perovskite is responsible for the lower photovoltaic efficiency in comparison to the Pb-based analogues. These results provide important progress toward achieving improved perovskite morphology control in realizing solution-processed highly efficient lead-free perovskite solar cells.
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