Anwar Qasem M Alanazi, Essa Awadh R Alharbi, Marine Eva Fedora Bouduban, David Lyndon Emsley, Fabrizio Giordano, Michael Graetzel, Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi, Dominik Józef Kubicki, Jovana Milic, Marko Mladenovic, Jacques-Edouard Moser, Daniel Prochowicz, Dan Ren, Ursula Röthlisberger, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin
Chemical doping of inorganic–organic hybrid perovskites is an effective way of improving the performance and operational stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Here we use 5-ammonium valeric acid iodide (AVAI) to chemically stabilize the structure of α-FAPbI3. Using solid-state MAS NMR, we demonstrate the atomic-level interaction between the molecular modulator and the perovskite lattice and propose a structural model of the stabilized three-dimensional structure, further aided by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We find that one-step deposition of the perovskite in the presence of AVAI produces highly crystalline films with large, micrometer-sized grains and enhanced charge-carrier lifetimes, as probed by transient absorption spectroscopy. As a result, we achieve greatly enhanced solar cell performance for the optimized AVA-based devices with a maximum power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.94%. The devices retain 90% of the initial efficiency after 300 h under continuous white light illumination and maximum-power point-tracking measurement.
2019