Qing Dai,Qin Ling,Like Huang,Xiaohui Liu,Houcheng Zhang,Jing Zhang,Yuejin Zhu,Ziyang Hu
Two-dimensional (2D) perovskites have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their promising light harvesting and emissive properties. However, the realization of 2D perovskite crystallization with sufficient coverage and reliable reproducibility remains difficult. In this study, controlling the solvent volatilization to achieve high-quality crystallization with full coverage and lateral homogeneity of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper phase perovskite was effectively achieved. It is found that variations in the solvent evaporation rate give rise to lateral film coverage gradients with the degree of grain fusion during the process of hot-casting. As a result, the obtained photovoltaic efficiency varies due to the growth inhomogeneity across hot-casting thin films from center to edge. By adjusting the temperature of the casting perovskite precursor, film inhomogeneity and device performance variation can be alleviated. Regulating radial morphology across hot-casting thin films will enable coating techniques amenable to the solution process for robust reproducibility.
Zhenbo Du,Yuan Xu,Yu Jing,Ruoshui Li,Jianming Lin,Jihuai Wu,Zhang Lan
All-inorganic carbon-based CsPbIBr 2 perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted attention due to their more balanced performance and stability. The performance of the PSCs is highly dependent on the quality of the absorber films. Unfortunately, most high-performance films are prepared in a glove box and conventional preparation methods often produce perovskite films within 400 nm of thickness, which is detrimental to large area device fabrication and limits their commercial application. Here we had demonstrated a short chain ligands nano-CsPbIBr 2 particles modified hot-casting method to deposit a perovskite film with thickness up to 800 nm. It was carried out by spin-coating a hot CsPbIBr 2 precursor solution onto nano-CsPbIBr 2 particles film on an electron transport layer (ETL), and then depositing nano-CsPbIBr 2 particles on the precursor film again before annealing. The nano-CsPbIBr 2 particles on the ETL promotes precursor solution crystallization and increased film thickness, and the nano-CsPbIBr 2 particles on the precursor film promoted grain growth and reduced defects due to compositional deviations from stoichiometric ratios. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the PSCs fabricated by this method is up to 10.66 %. The unencapsulated PSCs still retain more than 85 % of the initial PCE when stored at ambient atmosphere (RH 50–60 %) for 10 days.