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, volume 624 , issue 7992 , pages 557-563

Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells

Zheng Liang ^{1, 2}

Yong Zhang ^{3, 4}

Xu Huifen ^{1, 2}

Wenjing Chen ^{2, 5}

Boyuan Liu ^{1, 2}

Jiyao Zhang ^{3, 4}

Hui Zhang ^{1, 2}

Zihan Wang ^{1, 2}

Dong-Ho Kang ^{6, 7}

Jianrong Zeng ⁸

Xingyu Gao ⁸

Qisheng Wang ⁸

Huijie Hu ^{1, 2}

Hongmin Zhou ^{2, 9}

Xiangbin Cai ¹⁰

Xingyou Tian ¹

Peter Reiss ¹¹

Baomin Xu ^{3, 4}

Thomas Kirchartz ^{12, 13}

Zhengguo Xiao ^{2, 5}

Songyuan Dai ¹⁴

Nam-Gyu Park ^{6, 7}

Jiajiu Ye ^{1, 12}

徐攀 Xu Pan ¹

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Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic and Energy Conservation Material, Institute of Solid-State Physics (ISSP), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, People’s Republic of China |

University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, People’s Republic of China |

Shenzhen Engineering Research and Development Center for Flexible Solar Cells, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China |

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China |

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Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, People’s Republic of China |

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School of Chemical Engineering and Center for Antibonding Regulated Crystals, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Republic of Korea |

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SKKU Institute of Energy Science & Technology (SIEST), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea |

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Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Instruments Center for Physical Science (PIC), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, People’s Republic of China |

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Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, People’s Republic of China |

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University Grenoble-Alpes, CEA, CNRS, INP, IRIG/SyMMES, STEP, Grenoble, France |

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IEK5-Photovoltaics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany |

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Faculty of Engineering and CENIDE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany |

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State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources, North China Electric Power University (NCEPU), Beijing, People’s Republic of China |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2023-11-01

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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06784-0

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Abstract

Perovskite solar cells with the formula FA_1−xCs_xPbI₃, where FA is formamidinium, provide an attractive option for integrating high efficiency, durable stability and compatibility with scaled-up fabrication. Despite the incorporation of Cs cations, which could potentially enable a perfect perovskite lattice^1,2, the compositional inhomogeneity caused by A-site cation segregation is likely to be detrimental to the photovoltaic performance of the solar cells^3,4. Here we visualized the out-of-plane compositional inhomogeneity along the vertical direction across perovskite films and identified the underlying reasons for the inhomogeneity and its potential impact for devices. We devised a strategy using 1-(phenylsulfonyl)pyrrole to homogenize the distribution of cation composition in perovskite films. The resultant p–i–n devices yielded a certified steady-state photon-to-electron conversion efficiency of 25.2% and durable stability.

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Liang Z. et al. Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells // Nature. 2023. Vol. 624. No. 7992. pp. 557-563.

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Liang Z., Zhang Y., Huifen X., Chen W., Liu B., Zhang J., Zhang H., Wang Z., Kang D., Zeng J., Gao X., Wang Q., Hu H., Zhou H., Cai X., Tian X., Reiss P., Xu B., Kirchartz T., Xiao Z., Dai S., Park N., Ye J., Xu Pan 徐. Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells // Nature. 2023. Vol. 624. No. 7992. pp. 557-563.

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DO - 10.1038/s41586-023-06784-0

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TI - Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells

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AU - Liang, Zheng

AU - Zhang, Yong

AU - Huifen, Xu

AU - Chen, Wenjing

AU - Liu, Boyuan

AU - Zhang, Jiyao

AU - Zhang, Hui

AU - Wang, Zihan

AU - Kang, Dong-Ho

AU - Zeng, Jianrong

AU - Gao, Xingyu

AU - Wang, Qisheng

AU - Hu, Huijie

AU - Zhou, Hongmin

AU - Cai, Xiangbin

AU - Tian, Xingyou

AU - Reiss, Peter

AU - Xu, Baomin

AU - Kirchartz, Thomas

AU - Xiao, Zhengguo

AU - Dai, Songyuan

AU - Park, Nam-Gyu

AU - Ye, Jiajiu

AU - Xu Pan, 徐攀

PY - 2023

DA - 2023/11/01

PB - Springer Nature

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VL - 624

PMID - 37913815

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@article{2023_Liang,

author = {Zheng Liang and Yong Zhang and Xu Huifen and Wenjing Chen and Boyuan Liu and Jiyao Zhang and Hui Zhang and Zihan Wang and Dong-Ho Kang and Jianrong Zeng and Xingyu Gao and Qisheng Wang and Huijie Hu and Hongmin Zhou and Xiangbin Cai and Xingyou Tian and Peter Reiss and Baomin Xu and Thomas Kirchartz and Zhengguo Xiao and Songyuan Dai and Nam-Gyu Park and Jiajiu Ye and 徐攀 Xu Pan},

title = {Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells},

journal = {Nature},

year = {2023},

volume = {624},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {nov},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06784-0},

number = {7992},

pages = {557--563},

doi = {10.1038/s41586-023-06784-0}

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Liang, Zheng, et al. “Out-of-plane cations homogenise perovskite composition for solar cells.” Nature, vol. 624, no. 7992, Nov. 2023, pp. 557-563. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06784-0.

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