Proceedings of Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP23)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.iperop.2023.024
Publication date: 21st November 2022
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) exceeding 25% over the past decade. Effective passivation at the bottom interface with high trap density is challenging yet plays an important role in PSCs.[1,2] Here, organic molecules with A-D-A structure are studied as passivator. Firstly, we demonstrated that an advantageous molecular geometry and intermolecular ordering, aside from the functional moieties, are of great significance for effective and extensive passivation. Secondly, the passivation molecules spontaneously form a uniform passivation network adjacent to the bottom surface of perovskite films during a top-down crystallization via liquid medium annealing, which greatly reduces defect-assisted recombination throughout the whole perovskite/SnO2 interface. As a result, we achieved a device PCE over 25%.[1] Furthermore, we would like to extent the application field of the molecules in flexible PSCs. The investigation highlights a comprehensive understanding of designing passivation materials and provides a new avenue to achieve effective bottom-interface engineering for perovskite photovoltaics.