Surface Cleaning and Passivation Strategy for Durable Inverted Formamidinium-Cesium Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cells

Formamidinium-cesium triiodide (FAxCs1-xPbI3) perovskite exhibits excellent phase stability, making it the most promising candidate for commercial perovskite solar cell (PSC) applications, particularly those with inverted structures present a promising contribution to the field of perovskite production. However, this composition often forms small grain sizes and has a large number of defects and PbI2 residues on its surface, which can damage device performance. In this study, a post-surface engineering strategy called the clean-passivation method is proposed to address the interfacial problem between the perovskite and the electron transport layer (ETL). This method significantly reduces surface and grain boundary defects and eliminates unreacted PbI2, resulting in suppressed iodine decomposition and ion migration during operation. As a result, an excellent power conversion efficiency of 24.27% with superior stability is achieved, as the unencapsulated device maintains 97.12% of its initial efficiency after 1500 h of continuous light soaking. Furthermore, this new surface clean-passivate strategy can be universally applied to other typical perovskite compositions. A post-surface engineering strategy called the clean-passivate method is proposed to address the problems of perovskite interfaces. A clean and passivated perovskite surface is demonstrated to realize efficient and stable FAxCs1-xPbI3-based devices with inverted structure. Finally, the inverted FAxCs1-xPbI3 perovskite solar cell achieves an efficiency of 24.27%. An initial efficiency of 97.12% after continuous light soaking for 1500 h.image

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A post-surface engineering strategy called the clean-passivate method is proposed to address the interfacial problem between the perovskite and the electron transport layer. This method reduces defects and unreacted PbI2, resulting in improved efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells.