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 Li
  • Guangzheng 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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