• Nechache, Riad
• Benetti, Daniele
• Asuo, Ivy M.
• Rosei, Federico
• Cloutier, Sylvain G.
• Ka, Ibrahima
• Basti, Matteo
• Gedamu, Dawit

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In recent years, hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites have been widely studied for the low-cost fabrication of a wide range of optoelectronic devices, including impressive perovskite-based solar cells. Amongst the key factors influencing the performance of these devices, recent efforts have focused on tailoring the granularity and microstructure of the perovskite films. Albeit, a cost-effective technique allowing to carefully control their microstructure in ambient environmental conditions has not been realized. We report on a solvent-antisolvent ambient processed CH<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>NH<jats:sub>3</jats:sub>PbI<jats:sub>3−<jats:italic>x</jats:italic></jats:sub>Cl<jats:sub><jats:italic>x</jats:italic></jats:sub> based thin films using a simple and robust solvent engineering technique to achieve large grains (&gt;5 µm) having excellent crystalline quality and surface coverage with very low pinhole density. Using optimized treatment (75% chlorobenzene and 25% ethanol), we achieve highly-compact perovskite films with 99.97% surface coverage to produce solar cells with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) up-to 14.0%. In these planar solar cells, we find that the density and size of the pinholes are the dominant factors that affect their overall performances. This work provides a promising solvent treatment technique in ambient conditions and paves the way for further optimization of large area thin films and high performance perovskite solar cells.</jats:p>

Topics

• density
• perovskite
• surface
• grain
• grain size
• thin film