Analysis of the Oxygen Passivation Effects on MAPbI3 and MAPbBr3 in Fresh and Aged Solar Cells by the Transient Photovoltage Technique. Issue 9 (3rd August 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Su, Lijun; Méndez, Maria; Jiménez‐López, Jesús; Zhu, Miaoli; Xiao, Yaoming; Gil, Emilio José Palomares
• Is Part Of: ChemPlusChem. Volume 86:Issue 9(2021)
• Page Start: 1316
• Page End: 1321
• Publication Date: 2021-08-03
• Subjects: aging process -- oxygen passivation -- perovskite solar cells -- transient photovoltage; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540.5
• DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202100204
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2192-6506

Abstract

Abstract: Previous studies have revealed that for some perovskite compositions, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) improved after storing the devices in different ambient conditions. With the aim of better understanding such improvements, we focus our attention on the carrier/ionic dynamic kinetics of fresh and aged PSCs with different perovskite compositions (MAPbI3 and MAPbBr3 ) and using spiro‐OMeTAD as HTM. For that, we use transient photovoltage (TPV), a technique used to analyse the different recombination kinetics at equilibrium and at different illumination times. We observe that the aging treatment causes significant changes on the kinetics behaviour for bromide‐based devices, resulting in a positive influence on the cell performance (from 3.5 % to 6.1 % PCE, in reverse scan). However, the kinetics for those iodide‐based perovskite solar cells remains unchangeable (from 16.3 % to 15.0 % PCE, in reverse scan). Abstract : Ambient oxygen has been seen to be beneficial for some perovskite compositions and thus has different effects on their stability. Therefore, we compared the ion/electron dynamics of fresh and aged devices composed of different perovskites – MAPbI3, MAPbBr3 and CsFAMAPbIBr – by using the transient photovoltage (TPV) technique and analysed the presence of O2 passivation as a function of their composition.