The long‐term stability issue of halide perovskite solar cells hinders their commercialization. The residual stress–strain affects device stability, which is derived from the mismatched thermophysical and mechanical properties between adjacent layers. In this work, we introduced the Rb2CO3 layer at the interface of SnO2/perovskite with the hierarchy morphology of snowflake‐like microislands and dendritic nanostructures. With a suitable thermal expansion coefficient, the Rb2CO3 layer benefits the interfacial stress relaxation and results in a compressive stress–strain in the perovskite layer. Moreover, reduced nonradiative recombination losses and optimized band alignment were achieved. An enhancement of open‐circuit voltage from 1.087 to 1.153 V in the resultant device was witnessed, which led to power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 22.7% (active area of 0.08313 cm2) and 20.6% (1 cm2). Moreover, these devices retained 95% of its initial PCE under the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) after 2700 h. It suggests inorganic materials with high thermal expansion coefficients and specific nanostructures are promising candidates to optimize interfacial mechanics, which improves the operational stability of perovskite cells.
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) technique is one of the most popular additive manufacturing techniques. Infill density is a critical factor influencing the mechanical properties of 3D-printed components using the FDM technique. For irregular components with variable cross-sections, to increase their overall mechanical properties while maintaining a lightweight, it is necessary to enhance the local infill density of the thin part while decreasing the infill density of the thick part. However, most current slicing software can only generate a uniform infill throughout one model to be printed and cannot adaptively create a filling structure with a varying infill density according to the dimensional variation of the cross-section. In the present study, to improve the mechanical properties of irregular components with variable cross-sections, an adaptive-density filling structure was proposed, in which Hilbert curve with the same order was used to fill each slice, i.e., the level of the Hilbert curves in each slice is the same, but the side length of the Hilbert curve decreases with the decreasing size of each slice; hence, the infill density of the smaller cross-section is greater than that of the larger cross-section. The ultimate bearing capacity of printed specimens with the adaptive-density filling structure was evaluated by quasi-static compression, three-point bending, and dynamic compression tests, and the printed specimens with uniform filling structure and the same overall infill density were tested for comparison. The results show that the maximum flexural load, the ultimate compression load, and the maximum impact resistance of the printed specimens with the adaptive-density filling structure were increased by 140%, 47%, and 82%, respectively, compared with their counterparts using the uniform filling structure.
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