Among the 3D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite (OIHP), mixed formamidinium and methylammonium cations lead iodide is one of the most promising for solar cell application. After optimizing the use of methylammonium chloride (MACl) additive for the preparation of compact, high quality and large crystal grain layers made of pure α-phase perovskite with FA0.94MA0.06PbI3 composition, the treatment of the perovskite surface by a 2-Phenylethylamonium iodide (PEAI) solution has been implemented. This treatment, without any thermal annealing, leads notably to the spontaneous formation of a crystallized (PEA)2PbI4 2Dperovskite nanolayer at the film surface due to partial organic cation dissolution. This buffer layer
Herein, the synthesis of methylammonium‐free and bromide‐free CsxFA1−xPbI3 (FA for formamidinium) perovskite (PVK) photovoltaic layers with intrinsic outstanding properties in terms of crystallinity, defect waiving/passivation, and ionic mobility blocking by using a coadditives approach is described. It consists in mixing two chloride additives in the PVK precursor solution: potassium chloride (KCl) and ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). KCl favors the lead iodide (PbI2) precursor solubilization and results in a purer PVK phase. NH4Cl allows the control of the crystallization growth speed, leading to the formation of large crystal grains and well‐crystallized layers. By the glow‐discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GD‐OES) technique, it is directly visualized that potassium incorporated in the whole film blocks the iodide mobility by defect passivation. Also, the reduction (or suppression) of iodide mobility and the reduction (or suppression) of the J–V curve hysteresis is clearly correlated. It is found that blocking the ionic mobility is insufficient to fully stabilize the halide perovskite material which also requires the crystallization monitoring carried out in parallel by the second additive. It resulted in Cs0.1FA0.9PbI3 cells with a stabilized power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.02% and with superior stability.
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