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Optimization of grain size to achieve high-performance perovskite solar cells in vapor deposition

Wu Bu-Jun Lin Dong-Xu Li Zheng Cheng Zhen-Ping Li Xin Chen Ke Shi Ting-Ting Xie Wei-Guang Liu Peng-Yi

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Optimization of grain size to achieve high-performance perovskite solar cells in vapor deposition

Wu Bu-Jun, Lin Dong-Xu, Li Zheng, Cheng Zhen-Ping, Li Xin, Chen Ke, Shi Ting-Ting, Xie Wei-Guang, Liu Peng-Yi
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  • Organometal halide perovskite is one of the most promising materials for high efficient thin-film solar cell. Solution fabrication process shows that the recorded power conversion efficiency (PCE) is 23.7%, however, large scale fabrication suffers the inevitable toxic solvent, preventing it from implementing the green commercialization. As one of the matured large-scale fabrication techniques, the vapor deposition is recently found to promise the green fabrication of perovskite thin film without toxic solvent. However, the PCE based on vapor deposition is considerably lower than that based on solution fabrication because of ineffective regulation methods of the perovskite films. So, there is intensive requirement for optimizing the growth of perovskite in vapor deposition for improving PCE, especially, developing a kind of quality regulation method of the perovskite films. In this study, we provide a method of adjusting grain size in vapor deposition method. The grain size optimization of MAPbI3 films is realized by simply modulating the reaction temperature between PbI2 films and MAI vapor. We set the reaction temperature to be 140 ℃, 160 ℃, 180 ℃ and 200 ℃ separately and establish the relationship between reaction time and grain size during the complete conversion of PbI2 film into MAPbI3 film. We find that the average grain size of the film increases first with growth temperature increasing from 140 ℃ to 180 ℃ and then decrease at 200 ℃, giving an average grain size of 0.81 ${\text{μm}}$ and a largest grain size of about 2 ${\text{μm}}$ at 180 ℃. The defect density of perovskite film is deduced from the space charge limited current model, showing that it decreases from 5.90 × 1016 cm–3 at 140 ℃ to 2.66 × 1016 cm–3 at 180 ℃. Photovoltaic devices with structure FTO/TiO2/C60/MAPbI3/spiro-OMeTAD/Au are fabricated to demonstrate the performance. It is found that the devices with an active area of 0.045 cm2 show that with the increase of grain size, the average PCE increases from 14.00% to 17.42%, and the best device shows that its PCE is 17.80% with 4.04% hysteresis index. To show the possibility of scaling up, we fabricate a uniform perovskite thin film with an area of about 72 cm2, and a device with an active area of 1 cm2, which gives a PCE of 13.17% in reverse scan. In summary, our research provides a method of regulating the grain size for the vapor deposition, which can improve device performance by reducing the trap density in perovskite film for suppressing the carrier recombination in grain boundary. Meanwhile, we prepare high performance devices and large area thin films, showing their potential in large area device fabrication and applications.
      Corresponding author: Xie Wei-Guang, wgxie@email.jnu.edu.cn ; Liu Peng-Yi, tlpy@jnu.edu.cn
    • Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61674070, 11574119, 11804117) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grants No. 21618313).
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  • 图 1  钙钛矿薄膜的气相制备流程及效果 (a)两步钙钛矿薄膜气相制备流程示意图; (b)PbI2与MAI气体反应示意图; (c)器件SEM截面图

    Figure 1.  Vapor growth of perovskite film: (a) Schematic growth processes of two-step vapor growth of perovskite films; (b) reaction schematic between the PbI2 structure and the MAI molecule; (c) the cross-sectional morphology of the as-prepared device.

    图 2  不同反应温度下钙钛矿薄膜的表征 (a)薄膜的XRD图谱; (b)不同反应温度下PbI2向MAPbI3完全转化所需的时间; (c)薄膜的吸收图谱

    Figure 2.  (a) The XRD patterns; (b) reaction time for fully conversion of PbI2 to MAPbI3 under different reaction temperature; (c) UV-vis spectra of perovskite films synthesized under different temperature.

    图 3  温度对钙钛矿薄膜形态的影响 (a)—(d)反应温度分别为140 ℃, 160 ℃, 180 ℃以及200 ℃时制备的钙钛矿的SEM形貌图(白色线段长度为1 ${\text{μm}}$); (e)不同反应温度下的钙钛矿薄膜晶体粒径统计; (f)气相法制备面积约72 cm2的MAPbI3薄膜

    Figure 3.  Reaction temperature effect on the morphology of perovskite film: (a)–(d) SEM images of perovskite films with reaction temperature of (a) 140 ℃, (b) 160 ℃, (c) 180 ℃ and (d) 200 ℃ (the scale bars in the SEM images are 1 ${\text{μm}}$); (e) statistics of grain size under different reaction temperature; (f) as prepared MAPbI3 film with area about 72 cm2.

    图 4  钙钛矿薄膜的缺陷密度测试 (a) 140 ℃; (b) 160 ℃; (c) 180 ℃; (d) 200 ℃

    Figure 4.  Trap density measurement in perovskite synthesized under different temperature: (a) 140 ℃; (b) 160 ℃; (c) 180 ℃ and (d) 200 ℃.

    图 5  钙钛矿光伏器件性能 (a)标准光照下面积为0.045 cm2器件的J-V曲线; (b)多组器件效率的统计结果; (c)面积为0.045 cm2器件180 ℃下制备的器件回滞曲线; (d)面积为0.045 cm2器件140 ℃下制备的器件回滞曲线; (e)面积为1 cm2 器件180 ℃下制备的器件J-V曲线; (f) 1 cm2 器件的光学图片

    Figure 5.  Device performance of perovskite photovoltaic devices: (a) 0.045 cm2 device reverse J-V curves under 1 Sun AM 1.5 G; (b) statistical distribution of PCE; reverse and forward J-V curves of devices (0.045 cm2) grown at (c) 180 ℃ and (d) 140 ℃; (e) reverse and forward J-V curves of device (1 cm2) grown at 180 ℃ and (f) corresponding optical image.

    表 1  不同反应温度的器件具体性能参数以及统计值

    Table 1.  Characteristic parameters and statistical result of PSCs.

    Sythesis temperature Jsc/mA·cm-2 Voc/V FF/% Champion PCE/% Average PCE/%
    140 22.04 0.99 66.31 14.47 14.00
    160 22.25 1 70.51 15.69 14.93
    180 23.47 1.02 74.35 17.80 17.42
    200 22.75 1.03 70.88 16.61 16.13
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    Yin W J, Shi T, Yan Y 2014 Adv. Mater. 26 4653Google Scholar

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    De Wolf S, Holovsky J, Moon S J, Loper P, Niesen B, Ledinsky M, Haug F J, Yum J H, Ballif C 2014 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5 1035Google Scholar

    [3]

    Green M A, Ho-Baillie A, Snaith H J 2014 Nature Photon. 8 506Google Scholar

    [4]

    Kojima A, Teshima K, Shirai Y, Miyasaka T 2009 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131 6050Google Scholar

    [5]

    Correa-Baena J P, Saliba M, Buonassisi T, Grätzel M, Abate A, Tress W, Hagfeldt A 2017 Sicence 358 739Google Scholar

    [6]

    吴存存, 孙伟海, 陈志坚, 肖立新 2017 科学通报 62 1457

    Wu C C, Sun W H, Chen Z J, Xiao L X 2017 Chin. Sci. Bull. 62 1457

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    杨旭东, 陈汉, 毕恩兵, 韩礼元 2015 物理学报 64 038404Google Scholar

    Yang X D, Chen H, Bi E B, Han L Y 2015 Acta Phys. Sin. 64 038404Google Scholar

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    Seok S I, Kim E K, Noh J H 2017 Science 356 1376Google Scholar

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