Dredging the Charge‐Carrier Transfer Pathway for Efficient Low‐Dimensional Ruddlesden‐Popper Perovskite Solar Cells

Abstract

Low-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper (LDRP) perovskites still suffer from inferior carrier transport properties. Here, we demonstrate that efficient exciton dissociation and charge transfer can be achieved in LDRP perovskite by introducing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) as a spacer. The hydrogen bonding links adjacent spacing sheets in (GABA) 2 MA 3 Pb 4 I 13 (MA = CH 3 NH 3 + ), leading to the charges localized in the van der Waals gap, thereby constructing "charged-bridge" for charge transfer through the spacing region. Additionally, the polarized GABA weakens dielectric confinement, decreasing the (GABA) 2 MA 3 Pb 4 I 13 exciton binding energy as low as � 73 meV. Benefiting from these merits, the resultant GABA-based solar cell yields a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 18.73 % with enhanced carrier transport properties. Furthermore, the unencapsulated device maintains 92.8 % of its initial PCE under continuous illumination after 1000 h and only lost 3 % of its initial PCE under 65 °C for 500 h.