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Humidity-robust scalable metal halide perovskite film deposition for photovoltaic applications

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ISSN: 2050-7496, Vol: 8, Issue: 47, Page: 25283-25289
2020
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Article Description

Organic-inorganic perovskite photovoltaics have now achieved power conversion efficiencies at par with silicon devices on a lab-scale. To enable industrial application of the technology, developing a perovskite deposition route compatible with scalable, large-area deposition methods, which exploits safer processing solvents and is robust to variations of the processing parameters, particularly humidity, is highly demanded. To satisfy such constraints altogether, here we introduce a lead iodide-hydroiodic acid-water precursor (PbI2-HI-H2O) that enables the scalable deposition of methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3) films from a safer solvent (acetonitrile-ACN) in a wide range of high moisture levels, spanning from 50 to 80% relative humidity. When exposed to a methylamine (MA) gas flow the PbI2-HI-H2O precursor readily converts to specular perovskite films. If heated, the PbI2-HI-H2O film can be easily reverted to PbI2, further enabling the implementation of two step deposition methods. Our process was tested in an inverted solar cell configuration achieving stabilized power conversion efficiencies of 14% with minimal annealing requirements. Our findings demonstrate an appealing route for a large-area compatible manufacturing of hybrid perovskite photovoltaics in air, at high moisture levels, based on solvents of reduced hazard. This journal is

Bibliographic Details

Carlo Andrea Riccardo Perini; Anil Reddy Pininti; Samuele Martani; Peter Topolovsek; Andrea Perego; Daniele Cortecchia; Annamaria Petrozza; Mario Caironi

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Chemistry; Energy; Materials Science

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