Abstract
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show great potential as industrial photovoltaic devices due to their low fabrication cost and high power conversion efficiency. Owing to high electron conductivity and good energy level matching with perovskites, SnO2 is widely used as electron transport layers (ETLs) for PSCs. However, the agglomeration of SnO2 nanoparticles makes them have poor contact with the glass substrate and it is easy to produce defects on the film surface. Herein, acetonitrile (ACN) is used to optimize the conventional solvent of commercial SnO2 colloid to solve these problems. The addition of ACN in solvent resulted in better-performing SnO2 ETLs, thus eliminating the need for long-time ultraviolet ozone (UV-ozone) treatment of the glass substrate, which undoubtedly greatly simplified the fabrication process. The subsequent vacuum treatment of SnO2 films before annealing further improves morphology of the ETLs film and performance of the overall device. Finally, the best devices after the above solvent engineering treatment achieved an efficiency of 22.28%, increased by 16% with respect to the control device fabricated by conventional method. In addition, the long-term stability of devices was also apparently improved. This solvent engineering strategy provides a simple route to prepare high-quality SnO2 ETL for high-performance PSCs.
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