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Wanpei Hu1, Zhiling Wen1, Xin Yu1
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion Anhui Laboratory of Advanced Photon Science and Technology Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Science and Technology of China Hefei 230026 China.
Abstract:
Low-temperature solution-processed TiO2 nanocrystals (LT-TiO2) have been extensively applied as electron transport layer (ETL) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, the low electron mobility, high density of electronic trap states, and considerable photocatalytic activity of TiO2 result in undesirable charge recombination at the ETL/perovskite interface and notorious instability of PSCs under ultraviolet (UV) light. Herein, LT-TiO2 nanocrystals are in situ fluorinated via a simple nonhydrolytic method, affording formation of Ti─F bonds, and consequently increase electron mobility, decrease density of electronic trap states, and inhibit photocatalytic activity. Upon applying fluorinated TiO2 nanocrystals (F-TiO2) as ETL, regular-structure planar heterojunction PSC (PHJ-PSC) achieves a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 22.68%, which is among the highest PCEs for PHJ-PSCs based on LT-TiO2 ETLs. Flexible PHJ-PSC devices based on F-TiO2 ETL exhibit the best PCE of 18.26%, which is the highest value for TiO2-based flexible devices. The bonded F atoms on the surface of TiO2 promote the formation of Pb─F bonds and hydrogen bonds between F- and FA/MA organic cations, reinforcing interface binding of perovskite layer with TiO2 ETL. This contributes to effective passivation of the surface trap states of perovskite film, resulting in enhancements of device efficiency and stability especially under UV light.
