Suppressing Hole Accumulation Through Sub‐Nanometer Dipole Interfaces in Hybrid Perovskite/Organic Solar Cells for Boosting Near‐Infrared Photon Harvesting
Minho Lee, Min Seok Kim, Yu Jin Lee, Byeongsu Kim, Ju‐Hyeon Kim, Chungryeol Lee, Jihyung Lee, Jihyung Lee, Dong‐Jun Kim, Hyunseok Ko, Masoud Darvish Ganji, Kwanghee Lee, Woojae Kim, Jung‐Yong Lee, Jung‐Yong Lee
Abstract
Abstract The potential of hybrid perovskite/organic solar cells (HSCs) is increasingly recognized owing to their advantageous characteristics, including straightforward fabrication, broad‐spectrum photon absorption, and minimal open‐circuit voltage ( V OC ) loss. Nonetheless, a key bottleneck for efficiency improvement is the energy level mismatch at the perovskite/bulk‐heterojunction (BHJ) interface, leading to charge accumulation. In this study, it is demonstrated that introducing a uniform sub‐nanometer dipole layer formed of B3PyMPM onto the perovskite surface effectively reduces the 0.24 eV energy band offset between the perovskite and the donor of BHJ. This strategic modification suppresses the charge recombination loss, resulting in a noticeable 30 mV increase in the V OC and a balanced carrier transport, accompanied by a 5.0% increase in the fill factor. Consequently, HSCs that achieve power conversion efficiency of 24.0% is developed, a new record for Pb‐based HSCs with a remarkable increase in the short‐circuit current of 4.9 mA cm −2 , attributed to enhanced near‐infrared photon harvesting.