iScience ( IF 4.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101013 Jun Ji 1 , Xin Liu 1 , Haoran Jiang 1 , Mingjun Duan 1 , Benyu Liu 1 , Hao Huang 1 , Dong Wei 1 , Yingfeng Li 1 , Meicheng Li 1
The failure of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is a serious barrier of commercial utilization. Here, a two-stage degradation process of TiO2-based PSCs is discovered under continuous UV irradiation in an inert atmosphere. In the first decay stage, oxygen vacancy-Ti3+ (Ti3+-VO) transform into active Ti4+-VO trap states under UV excitation and cause photocarrier loss. Furthermore, Ti4+-VO states can convert back into Ti3+-VO states through oxidizing I−, which result in the accumulation of I3−. Sequentially, the rapid decomposition of perovskite accelerated by increasing I3− replaces the photocarrier loss as the dominant mechanism leading to the second decay stage. Then, a universal method is proposed to improve the UV stability by blocking the transformation of Ti3+-VO states, which can be realized by polyethyleneimine ethoxylated (PEIE) modified layer. The optimized devices remain ∼75% of its initial efficiency (20.51%) under UV irradiation at 72 days, whereas the normal devices fail completely.
中文翻译:
氧气空位-Ti4 +态引起的钙钛矿型太阳能电池的两阶段紫外降解。
钙钛矿太阳能电池(PSCs)在紫外线(UV)照射下的失效是商业应用的严重障碍。在此,在惰性气氛中连续紫外线照射下,发现了基于TiO 2的PSCs的两步降解过程。在第一个衰变阶段,氧空位-Ti 3+(Ti 3+ -V O)在紫外线激发下转变为活性Ti 4+ -V O陷阱态,并导致光载流子损失。此外,TI 4+ -V Ø状态可以转换回钛3+ -V Ø国通过氧化我- ,这导致我的积累3 -。随后,钙钛矿的迅速分解,加速通过增加我3 -取代了光生载损失的主要机制导致第二衰退阶段。然后,通用方法,提出了通过阻断Ti中的变换,以改善UV稳定性3+ -V ø状态,其可以通过聚乙烯亚胺来实现乙氧基化(PEIE)改性层。经过优化的设备在72天的紫外线照射下仍可保持约75%的初始效率(20.51%),而普通设备则完全失效。