Ghosh, S and Pariari, D and Behera, T and Boix, PP and Ganesh, N and Basak, S and Vidhan, A and Sarda, N and Mora-Seró, I and Chowdhury, A and Narayan, KS and Sarma, DD and Sarkar, SK (2023) Buried Interface Passivation of Perovskite Solar Cells by Atomic Layer Deposition of Al2O3. In: ACS Energy Letters, 8 (4). pp. 2058-2065.
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Abstract
Despite having long excited carrier lifetimes and high mobilities in hybrid halide perovskite materials, conventional (n-i-p) devices exhibit significant interfacial nonradiative recombination losses that are little understood but limit the radiative efficiency and the overall open-circuit potential. In this Letter, we reveal that the process of spiro-OMeTAD coating on perovskite gives rise to buried defect states, which are detrimental to the devices’ operational stability. We subsequently report a method to passivate these deleterious buried defect states by atomic layer deposition of Al2O3 through controlled precursor dosages on fully functional devices. The process results in notable improvements in the overall device performance, but the underlying root-cause analysis is what we essentially aimed to elucidate here. The reported passivation technique results in (a) an increase in the efficiency primarily due to an increase of VOC by ∼60-70 mV and consequently (b) enhanced photoluminescence and higher electroluminescence quantum efficiency and (c) overall device operational (MPPT) stability under ambient and, exclusively, even under high vacuum (>300 h) conditions, which is otherwise challenging.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | ACS Energy Letters |
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors. |
| Keywords: | Alumina; Aluminum oxide; Atomic layer deposition; Defect states; Hybrid materials; Passivation; Perovskite; Perovskite solar cells, Atomic-layer deposition; Buried defect; Buried interface; Defect state; Excited carriers; Halide perovskites; High mobility; Interface passivation; Nonradiative recombination; Recombination loss, Efficiency |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 25 May 2023 07:38 |
| Last Modified: | 25 May 2023 07:38 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/81509 |
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