Masi, Sofia and Rizzo, Aurora and Munir, Rahim and Listorti, Andrea and Giuri, Antonella and Esposito Corcione, Carola and Treat, Neil and Gigli, Giuseppe and Amassian, Aram and Stingelin, Natalie and Colella, Silvia (2017) Organic gelators as growth control agents for stable and reproducible hybrid perovskite-based solar cells. Advanced Energy Materials. ISSN 1614-6840
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Abstract
Low molecular-weight organic gelators are widely used to influence the solidification of polymers, with applications ranging from packaging items, food containers to organic electronic devices, including organic photovoltaics. Here, this concept is extended to hybrid halide perovskite-based materials. In-situ time-resolved grazing incidence wide angle x-ray scattering (GIWAXS) measurements performed during spin-coating reveal that organic gelators beneficially influence the nucleation and growth of the perovskite precursor phase. This can be exploited for the fabrication of planar n-i-p heterojunction devices with MAPbI3 (MA = CH3NH3 +) that display a performance that not only is enhanced by ~25% compared to solar cells where the active layer was produced without the use of a gelator but that also feature a higher stability to moisture and a reduced hysteresis. Most importantly, the presented approach is straight-forward and simple, and it provides a general method to render the film-formation of hybrid perovskites more reliable and robust, analogous to the control that is afforded by these additives in the processing of commodity ‘plastics’.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | halide perovskites, organic gelators, photovoltaics |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 540 Chimica e scienze connesse |
| Depositing User: | Dr Aurora Rizzo |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2017 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2017 11:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16062 |
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