Fabrication of high-performance and low-hysteresis lead halide perovskite solar cells by utilizing a versatile alcohol-soluble bispyridinium salt as an efficient cathode modifier

摘要

A novel alcohol-soluble conjugated bispyridinium salt (FPyBr) is developed and used as a cathode modifier to improve the cathode interface of planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells (PHJ PVSCs). The excellent electron-withdrawing ability of bispyridinium rings endows FPyBr with a favorable energy level alignment with phenyl-C-60-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and the cathode (e.g., Al), which leads to an ideal ohmic contact and efficient electron transport and collection. The deep-lying highest occupied molecular orbital energy level of FPyBr can also effectively block hole carriers and thus decrease leakage current and hole-electron recombination at the cathode interface. In addition, FPyBr can n-dope PCBM through an anion-induced electron transfer process, which increases the electron mobility of PCBM drastically, thereby diminishing interfacial resistance and promoting electron transport. As a result, by incorporating an FPyBr cathode interlayer with ethanol solvent, high-performance and low-hysteresis PHJ PVSCs with a maximal power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 19.61% can be realized. In contrast, reference devices without any cathode interlayer display a distinctly worse performance, with a PCE of 16.97%. Therefore, this excellent cathode modifier provides a new opportunity to fabricate high performance multilayer PVSCs using low-temperature solution processing without interfacial erosion/mixing.