Tin‐based halide perovskites attract incremental attention due to the favorable optoelectronic properties and ideal bandgaps. However, the poor crystalline quality is still the biggest challenge for further progress in tin‐based perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) due to the unfavorable defects and uncontrollable crystallization kinetics. Here, acetic acid (HAc) is first introduced to reduce the supersaturated concentration of the precursor solution to preferentially form pre‐nucleation clusters, thus inducing rapid nucleation for effective regulation of crystallization kinetics. In particular, the hydrogen ion and acetate ion contained in HAc can effectively inhibit the oxidation of Sn2+, and the hydrogen bonding interaction between HAc and iodide ion (I‐) greatly reduces the loss of I‐, which guarantees the I‐/Sn2+ stoichiometric ratio of the corresponding perovskite film close to theoretical value, thus effectively reducing the defect density and maintaining the perfect crystal lattice. Consequently, the HAc‐assisted tin‐based PVSCs achieve a champion power conversion efficiency of 12.26% with superior open‐circuit voltage up to 0.75 V. Moreover, the unencapsulated device maintains nearly 90% of the initial PCE even after 3000 h storage in nitrogen atmosphere. This demonstrated strategy enables to prepare high‐quality tin‐based perovskite film with lower defect density and lattice distortion.
Sequential deposition is certified as an effective technology to obtain high‐performance perovskite solar cells (PVSCs), which can be derivatized into large‐scale industrial production. However, dense lead iodide (PbI2) causes incomplete reaction and unsatisfactory solution utilization of perovskite in planar PVSCs without mesoporous titanium dioxide as a support. Here, a novel autonomously longitudinal scaffold constructed by the interspersion of in situ self‐polymerized methyl methacrylate (sMMA) in PbI2 is introduced to fabricate efficient PVSCs with excellent flexural endurance and environmental adaptability. By this strategy perovskite solution can be confined within an organic scaffold with vertical crystal growth promoted, effectively inhibiting exciton accumulation and recombination at grain boundaries. Additionally, sMMA cross‐linked perovskite network can release mechanical stress and occupy the main channels for ion migration and water/oxygen permeation to significantly improve operational stability, which opens up a new strategy for the commercial development of large‐area PVSCs in flexible electronics.
Tin-based perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) have emerged as the most promising lead-free perovskite materials owing to their superior optoelectronic properties. However, the deficiency of accurate control of the tin-based perovskite crystallization process increases the possibility of unexpected perovskite film morphology and defects, resulting in inferior power conversion efficiency (PCE). Meanwhile, the poor environmental stability of tin-based perovskite films hinders its further development. In this work, a unique polymer [poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) (EVA)] is introduced into anti-solvent during spin coating of formamidinium tin tri-iodide (FASnI 3 ) precursor solution. The CO groups contained in EVA have a powerful Lewis acid−base complexation with uncoordinated tin atoms in perovskite grains, which can greatly improve the grain size, optimize the grain orientation, and decrease the surface defects of FASnI 3 films. This strategy offers an impressive PCE of 7.72% with favorable reproducibility. More importantly, the PVSC devices based on FASnI 3 −EVA absorbers have a self-encapsulation effect, which exhibits distinguished moisture and oxygen barrier property, thereby retaining 62.4% of the original efficiency value after aging for 48 h in the air with a humidity of 60%. Such a convenient strategy provides a new inspiration for the establishment of stable and high-performance tin-based PVSCs.
The effects from the molecular configuration of diammonium spacer cations on 2D/3D perovskite properties are still unclear.H ere,w ei nvestigated systematically the mechanism of molecular configuration-induced regulation of crystallization kinetic and carrier dynamics by employing various diammonium molecules to construct Dion-Jacobson (DJ)-type 2D/3D perovskites to further facilitating the photovoltaic performance.T he minimum average Pb-I-Pb angle leads to the smallest octahedral tilting of [PbX 6 ] 4À lattice in optimal diammonium molecule-incorporated DJ-type 2D/3D perovskite,w hich enables suitable binding energy and hydrogen-bonding between spacer cations and inorganic [PbX 6 ] 4À cages,t hus contributing to the formation of high-quality perovskite film with vertical crystal orientation, mitigatory lattice distortion and efficient carrier transportation. As aconsequence,adramatically improved device efficiency of 22.68 % is achieved with excellent moisture stability.
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