Homogenizing Morphology and Composition of Methylammonium-Free Wide-Bandgap Perovskite for Efficient and Stable Tandem Solar Cells

Xinxin Lian, Ye Xu, Wei Fu, Rui Meng, Quanxing Ma, Chunyu Xu, Ming Luo, Ying Hu, Junchao Han, Hao Min, Anurag Krishna, Yifan Chen, Huawei Zhou, Xueling Zhang, Cong Chen, Jin Chang, Can Li, Yifeng Chen, Zhiqiang Feng, Zhen LiGuangzheng Zuo, Jifan Gao, Hong Zhang, Xiaoliang Mo, Junhao Chu

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Abstract

A facile and eco-friendly dimethyl sulfoxide-mediated solution aging (DMSA) treatment is presented to control the crystallization dynamics of methylammonium (MA)-free wide-bandgap (WBG) perovskite films, enhancing film quality, and morphology for high-performance tandem solar cells. The comprehensive structural, morphological, and characterization analyses reveal that the DMSA treatment significantly enhances composition and morphology homogeneity while suppressing halide segregation. Consequently, opaque, and semi-transparent MA-free WBG perovskite solar cells (PSCs) exhibit remarkable power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of 18.28% and 17.61%, respectively. Notably, the unencapsulated DMSA-treated devices maintain 95% of the initial PCE after 900 h of continuous operation at 55 °C ± 5 °C. Furthermore, stacking semi-transparent DMSA-treated PSCs as top cells in a 4T tandem configuration, along with silicon heterojunction (SHJ), lead–tin (Pb–Sn) alloyed PSCs, and organic photovoltaics (OPV) as bottom cells, yields impressive PCEs of 28.09%, 26.09%, and 25.28%, respectively, for the fabricated tandem cells. This innovative approach opens new avenues for enhancing the photo-stability and photovoltaic performance of perovskite-based tandem solar cells.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2402061
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume34
Issue number37
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Sep 2024

Keywords

  • homogeneity
  • methylammonium-free
  • perovskite solar cells
  • tandem solar cells
  • wide-bandgap perovskite

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