Scalable fabrication of perovskite films with homogeneous structure remains a critical challenge in bridging power conversion efficiency gap between solar modules and laboratory-scale cells. To address this, we propose a slot-die coating strategy with pyrrodiazole additives in the perovskite precursor solution to simultaneously immobilize lead iodide and formamidinium iodide. This approach enhances wet film stability by suppressing colloidal aggregation, retards the crystal growth process, and ensures a consistent growth rate across the films. These effects promote the formation of large, monolithic grains, enabling large-area perovskite films with homogeneous structure, excellent uniformity, and low defect density under ambient conditions. Using this strategy, we achieved 10 cm × 10 cm inverted perovskite solar modules with a certified efficiency of 20.3%, along with good working stability and excellent application demonstration, showcasing its great potential for industrialization.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11871028 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57303-w | DOI Listing |
We report the cosolvency effect of formamidinium lead triiodide (FAPbI) in a mixture of γ-butyrolactone (GBL) and 2-methoxyethanol (2ME), a phenomenon where FAPbI shows higher solubility in the solvent blend than in either alone. We found that FAPbI exhibits 10× higher solubility in 30% 2ME in GBL than in 2ME alone and 40% higher solubility than in GBL alone at 90 °C. This enhanced solubility is attributed to the disruption of the hydrogen bonding network within 2ME, allowing its hydroxyl and ether groups to interact more freely with the solute.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Chem Soc
March 2025
Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3290, United States.
Semiconductor devices often rely on high-purity materials and interfaces achieved through vapor- and vacuum-based fabrication methods, which can enable precise compositional control down to single atomic layers. Compared to groups IV and III-V semiconductors, hybrid perovskites (HPs) are an emergent class of semiconductor materials with remarkable solution processability and compositional variability that have facilitated rapid experimentation to achieve new properties and progress toward efficient devices, particularly for solar cells. Surprisingly, vapor deposition techniques for HPs are substantially less developed, despite the complementary benefits that have secured vapor methods as workhorse tools for semiconductor fabrication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFACS Appl Mater Interfaces
March 2025
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States.
The use of 2D perovskite capping layers to passivate the surface defects of 3D perovskite active layers has become ubiquitous in high performance lead halide perovskite solar cells. However, these 2D/3D interfaces can be highly dynamic, with the structure evolving to form various mixed dimensional phases when exposed to thermal stress or illumination. Changes in the photoluminescence spectrum of formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI) films capped with alkylammonium-based 2D perovskites as they age at 100 °C or under simulated 1 sun illumination indicate that the 2D perovskite transforms to progressively larger inorganic layer thicknesses (denoted by layer number ), eventually approaching a steady-state condition where only the 3D perovskite ( = ∞) is detectable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNat Commun
March 2025
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Solution-processed metal halide perovskites are widely studied for their potential in high-efficiency light-emitting diodes, yet they are facing several challenges like insufficient brightness, short operational lifetimes, and reduced power conversion efficiency under practical operation conditions. Here, we develop an interfacial amidation reaction on sacrificial ZnO substrates to produce perovskite films with low trap density (1.2 × 10cm), and implement a device structure featuring a mono-molecular hole-injection layer and an all-inorganic bi-layered electron-injection layer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Chem Soc
March 2025
Polymer Science and Engineering Department, Conte Center for Polymer Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
The ability to arrange brightly fluorescent nanoscale materials into well-defined patterns is critically important in advanced optoelectronic structures. Traditional methods for doing so generally involve depositing different color quantum dot "inks," irradiating reactive (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!