A samarium-based down conversion material was employed to simultaneously improve the device performance and long-term stability of perovskite solar cells.
The stability of both the perovskite material and the interfacial layer is a key issue toward commercializing perovskite solar cells, due to the detrimental effects of water and oxygen under ambient conditions. Here, we report a solution‐processed organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cell that employs a bilayer PC61BM/CrOx as the electron transport layer. Use of an additional CrOx interfacial layer can enhance the stability of a device in air without encapsulation by more than 10 times compared to that for a device using only a PC61BM electron transport layer. The device with a CrOx interfacial layer can also improve the power conversion efficiency by 17.5% compared to that using PC61BM only. The improved performance is attributed to the better matching of the energy levels of the active layer with the metal electrode and more effective electron collection when using interfacial CrOx as the bilayer electronic transport layer. It was also found that use of CrOx as a passivating layer could resist the diffusion of water and oxygen into the active layer and prevent the reaction of the metal electrode with the perovskite layer.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.