Abstract
The benchmark tin oxide (SnO2) electron transporting layers (ETLs) have enabled remarkable progress in planar perovskite solar cell (PSCs). However, the energy loss is still a challenge due to the lack of “hidden interface” control. We report a novel ligand-tailored ultrafine SnO2 quantum dots (QDs) via a facile rapid room temperature synthesis. Importantly, the ligand-tailored SnO2 QDs ETL with multi-functional terminal groups in situ refines the buried interfaces with both the perovskite and transparent electrode via enhanced interface binding and perovskite passivation. These novel ETLs induce synergistic effects of physical and chemical interfacial modulation and preferred perovskite crystallization-directing, delivering reduced interface defects, suppressed non-radiative recombination and elongated charge carrier lifetime. Power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 23.02% (0.04 cm2) and 21.6% (0.98 cm2, VOC loss: 0.336 V) have been achieved for the blade-coated PSCs (1.54 eV Eg) with our new ETLs, representing a record for SnO2 based blade-coated PSCs. Moreover, a substantially enhanced PCE (VOC) from 20.4% (1.15 V) to 22.8% (1.24 V, 90 mV higher VOC, 0.04 cm2 device) in the blade-coated 1.61 eV PSCs system, via replacing the benchmark commercial colloidal SnO2 with our new ETLs.
Highlights
The organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP)materials have attracted enormous research interests[1,2,3,4,5,6], owing to the unique merits including material abundancy, low cost, long carrier diffusion lengths up to micrometer scale[7], tunable bandgap[8], high defects tolerance[4], outstanding and bipolar carrier transport properties[9,10], and high absorption coefficient[11,12]
We report a facile, ligands-assisted, rapid formulated room-temperature synthetic approach for novel multi-functional terminal groups anchored SnO2 quantum dots (QDs), which function as excellent electron transporting layers (ETLs) to in situ manipulate the interfacial contact in planar perovskite solar cells
Similar colloidal QDs size control phenomena have been reported in copper indium sulfide/zinc sulfide (CIS/ZnS) core/shell system, cadmium selenide (CdSe) QDs, etc.[31,49,50]
Summary
The organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP)materials have attracted enormous research interests[1,2,3,4,5,6], owing to the unique merits including material abundancy, low cost, long carrier diffusion lengths up to micrometer scale[7], tunable bandgap[8], high defects tolerance[4], outstanding and bipolar carrier transport properties[9,10], and high absorption coefficient[11,12].
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