Dithieno[3, 2‐b:2′, 3′‐d]pyrrol‐Cored Hole Transport Material Enabling Over 21% Efficiency Dopant‐Free Perovskite Solar Cells. (15th July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yin, Xinxing; Zhou, Jie; Song, Zhaoning; Dong, Zihao; Bao, Qinye; Shrestha, Niraj; Bista, Sandip Singh; Ellingson, Randy J.; Yan, Yanfa; Tang, Weihua
• Is Part Of: Advanced functional materials. Volume 29:Number 38(2019)
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• Publication Date: 2019-07-15
• Subjects: device engineering -- dopant‐free -- hole transport material -- perovskite solar cell; Materials -- Periodicals; Chemical vapor deposition -- Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201904300
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1616-301X

Abstract

Abstract: Dopant‐free hole transport materials (HTMs) are essential for commercialization of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of the state‐of‐the‐art PSCs with small molecule dopant‐free HTMs are below 20%. Herein, a simple dithieno[3, 2‐b:2′, 3′‐d]pyrrol‐cored small molecule, DTP‐C6Th, is reported as a promising dopant‐free HTM. Compared with commonly used spiro‐OMeTAD, DTP‐C6Th exhibits a similar energy level, a better hole mobility of 4.18 × 10 −4 cm 2 V −1 s −1, and more efficient hole extraction, enabling efficient and stable PSCs with a dopant‐free HTM. With the addition of an ultrathin poly(methyl methacrylate) passivation layer and properly tuning the composition of the perovskite absorber layer, a champion PCE of 21.04% is achieved, which is the highest value for small molecule dopant‐free HTM based PSCs to date. Additionally, PSCs using the DTP‐C6Th HTM exhibit significantly improved long‐term stability compared with the conventional cells with the metal additive doped spiro‐OMeTAD HTM. Therefore, this work provides a new candidate and effective device engineering strategy for achieving high PCEs with dopant‐free HTMs. Abstract : A new dopant‐free hole transport material DTP‐C6Th is developed for efficient planar n‐i‐p perovskite solar cells. The champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) reaches 21.04% after careful device engineering with poly(methyl methacrylate) passivation and composition tuning of perovskite. The DTP‐C6Th‐based devices without encapsulation show no PCE drop in the glovebox and retain over 85% of the initial PCE in air after storage for 60 days.