Efficient Inorganic Vapor-Assisted Defects Passivation for Perovskite Solar Module.

Zhang, Kun; Wang, Yang; Tao, Mingquan; Guo, Lutong; Yang, Yongrui; Shao, Jiangyang; Zhang, Yanyan; Wang, Fuyi et al. · Adv Mater · 2023

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Surface trap as intrinsic defects-mediated non-radiative charge recombination is a major obstacle to achieving the reliable fabrication of high-efficiency and large-area perovskite photovoltaics. Here a CS<sub>2</sub> vapor-assisted passivation strategy is proposed for perovskite solar module, aiming to passivate the iodine vacancy and uncoordinated Pb<sup>2+</sup> caused by ion migration. Significantly, this method can avoid the disadvantages of inhomogeneity film caused by spin-coating-assisted passivation and reconstruction of perovskite surface from solvent. The CS<sub>2</sub> vapor passivated perovskite device presents a higher defect formation energy (0.54 eV) of iodine vacancy than the pristine (0.37 eV), while uncoordinated Pb<sup>2+</sup> is bonded with CS<sub>2</sub> . The shallow level defect passivation of iodine vacancy and uncoordinated Pb<sup>2+</sup> has obviously enhanced the device efficiencies (25.20% for 0.08 cm<sup>2</sup> and 20.66% for 40.6 cm<sup>2</sup> ) and the stability, exhibiting an average T<sub>80</sub> -lifetime of 1040 h working at the maximum power point, and maintaining over 90% of initial efficiency after 2000 h at RH = 30% and 30 °C.