Dopant‐Free Hole Transport Materials Afford Efficient and Stable Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules
Cheng Liu, Cansu Igci, Yi Yang, Olga A. Syzgantseva, Maria A. Syzgantseva, Kasparas Rakštys, Hiroyuki Kanda, Naoyuki Shibayama, Bin Ding, Xianfu Zhang, Vygintas Jankauskas, Yong Ding, Songyuan Dai, Paul J. Dyson, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Abstract
Abstract The emerging CsPbI 3 perovskites are highly efficient and thermally stable materials for wide‐band gap perovskite solar cells (PSCs), but the doped hole transport materials (HTMs) accelerate the undesirable phase transition of CsPbI 3 in ambient. Herein, a dopant‐free D‐π‐A type HTM named CI‐TTIN‐2F has been developed which overcomes this problem. The suitable optoelectronic properties and energy‐level alignment endow CI‐TTIN‐2F with excellent charge collection properties. Moreover, CI‐TTIN‐2F provides multisite defect‐healing effects on the defective sites of CsPbI 3 surface. Inorganic CsPbI 3 PSCs with CI‐TTIN‐2F HTM feature high efficiencies up to 15.9 %, along with 86 % efficiency retention after 1000 h under ambient conditions. Inorganic perovskite solar modules were also fabricated that exhibiting an efficiency of 11.0 % with a record area of 27 cm 2 . This work confirms that using efficient dopant‐free HTMs is an attractive strategy to stabilize inorganic PSCs for their future scale‐up.