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Jianwu Chen1, Xuehui Xu1, Xiangyang Tang1
1State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Excited State Materials of Zhejiang Province, Institute of Advanced Photonics, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
Abstract:
The gas pumping method (GP) holds the potential of outperforming the antisolvent method (AS) for fabricating perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in many ways such as free of toxic solvents, improved film uniformity, and device reproducibility. Most of the highest power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of PSCs are still achieved by AS. Successful demonstrations of inverted PSCs produced by GP as well as the corresponding mechanisms are still lacking. Herein, we fabricate highly efficient inverted PSCs by GP delivering an overall efficiency of 21.54%, on par with that of the devices by AS (21.41%), and a superior reproducibility at the optimal film thickness. Nevertheless, as the perovskite film thickness increases, the PCE of GP devices slightly dropped while the AS devices decreased significantly. We found that the AS method tends to produce horizontal grain boundaries due to the heterogeneous solvent extraction while they can be effectively suppresed by the GP method.
