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Thermally Crosslinked Hole Conductor Enables Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells with 23.9% Efficiency

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Poly[bis(4‐phenyl)(2,4,6‐trimethylphenyl)amine] (PTAA) represents the state‐of‐the‐art hole transport material (HTM) in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, unsatisfied surface properties of PTAA and high energy disorder in the bulk film hinder… Click to show full abstract

Poly[bis(4‐phenyl)(2,4,6‐trimethylphenyl)amine] (PTAA) represents the state‐of‐the‐art hole transport material (HTM) in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, unsatisfied surface properties of PTAA and high energy disorder in the bulk film hinder the further enhancement of device performance. Herein, a simple small molecule 10‐(4‐(3,6‐dimethoxy‐9H‐carbazol‐9‐yl)phenyl)‐3,7‐bis(4‐vinylphenyl)‐10H‐phenoxazine (MCz‐VPOZ) is strategically developed for in situ fabrication of polymer hole conductor (CL‐MCz) via a facile and low‐temperature cross‐linking technology. The resulting polymer CL‐MCz offers high energy ordering and improved electrical conductivity, as well as appropriate energy‐level alignment, enabling efficient charge carrier collection in the devices. Meanwhile, CL‐MCz synchronously provides satisfied surface wettability and interfacial functionalization, facilitating the formation of high‐quality perovskite films with fewer bulk iodine vacancies and suppressed carrier recombination. Significantly, the device with CL‐MCz yields a champion efficiency of 23.9% along with an extremely low energy loss down to 0.41 eV, which represents the highest reported efficiency for non‐PTAA‐based polymer HTMs in inverted PSCs. Furthermore, the corresponding unencapsulated devices exhibit competitive shelf‐life stability under various operational stressors up to 2500 h, reflecting high promises of CL‐MCz in the scalable PSC application. This work underscores the promising potential of the cross‐linking approach in preparing low‐cost, stable, and efficient polymer HTMs toward reliable PSCs.

Keywords: inverted perovskite; hole conductor; solar cells; energy; efficiency; perovskite solar

Journal Title: Advanced Materials
Year Published: 2022

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