Crystallization Enhancement and Ionic Defect Passivation in Wide-Bandgap Perovskite for Efficient and Stable All-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells

By integrating wide-bandgap (WBG) and narrow-bandgap perovskites, monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells have garnered significant attention as a prospective strategy for surpassing the efficiency limits of single-junction cells. However, the WBG subcells, which significantly impact the performance and operational stability of all-perovskite tandem solar cells, face notable challenges associated with pronounced nonradiative recombination losses and limited film photostability. Here, an efficient method is reported by adding potassium hypophosphite into the perovskite precursor solution to simultaneously regulate crystallization and passivate ionic defects in WBG perovskites. This approach results in high-quality perovskite films and significantly improves the performance and photostability of WBG perovskite solar cells. The single-junction devices with a 1.79 eV bandgap achieve a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.06% with an open-circuit voltage of 1.32 V. The devices retain approximate to 96% of their initial PCE following 913 h of continuous AM 1.5 G illumination. With these WBG perovskite subcells, monolithic all-perovskite tandem solar cells are fabricated with an efficiency of 26.08%.

Automated summary

By adding potassium hypophosphite, the performance and photostability of perovskite solar cells are improved, leading to an increase in the efficiency of all-perovskite tandem solar cells.