CdS Induced Passivation toward High Efficiency and Stable Planar Perovskite Solar Cells
- 20 February 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Vol. 13 (8), 9771-9780
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c18311
Abstract
In perovskite solar cells, the halide vacancy defects on the perovskite film surface/interface will instigate charge recombination, leading to a decrease in cell performance. In this study, cadmium sulfide (CdS) has been introduced into the precursor solution to reduce the halide vacancy defects and improve the cell performance. The highest efficiency of the device reaches 21.62%. Density functional theory calculation reveals that the incorporated Cd2+ ions can partially replace Pb2+ ions, thus forming a strong Cd–I bond and effectively reducing iodide vacancy defects (VI); at the same time, the loss of the charge recombination is significantly reduced because VI is filled by S2– ions. Besides, the substitution of Cd2+ for Pb2+ could increase the generation of PbI2, which can further passivate the grain boundary. Therefore, the stability of the cells, together with the efficiency of the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), is also improved, maintaining 87.5% of its initial PCEs after being irradiated over 410 h. This work provides a very effective strategy to passivate the surface/interface defects of perovskite films for more efficient and stable optoelectronic devices.Keywords
Funding Information
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2018YFB1500101)
- Education Department of Jiangxi Province (GGJ190702, GGJ190703)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (51421002, 51627803, 51872321, 51962015)
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province (20202BABL204071)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (112111KYSB20170089)
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