DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201404007. HPbI<sub>3</sub>: A New Precursor Compound for Highly Efficient Solution‐Processed Perovskite Solar Cells

HPbI3: A New Precursor Compound for Highly Efficient Solution‐Processed Perovskite Solar Cells

10.1002/adfm.201404007

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Wiley

Advanced Functional Materials (311)

Abstract

Recently, there have been extensive research efforts on developing high performance organolead halide based perovskite solar cells. While most studies focused on optimizing the deposition processes of the perovskite films, the selection of the precursors has been rather limited to the lead halide/methylammonium (or formamidium) halide combination. In this work, we developed a new precursor, HPbI3, to replace lead halide. The new precursor enables formation of highly uniform formamidium lead iodide (FAPbI3) films through a one‐step spin‐coating process. Furthermore, the FAPbI3 perovskite films exhibit a highly crystalline phase with strong (110) preferred orientation and excellent thermal stability. The planar heterojunction solar cells based on these perovskite films exhibit an average efficiency of 15.4% and champion efficiency of 17.5% under AM 1.5 G illumination. By comparing the morphology and formation process of the perovskite films fabricated from the formamidium iodide (FAI)/HPbI3, FAI/PbI2, and FAI/PbI2 with HI additive precursor combinations, it is shown that the superior property of the HPbI3 based perovskite films may originate from 1) a slow crystallization process involving exchange of H+ and FA+ ions in the PbI6 octahedral framework and 2) elimination of water in the precursor solution state.

Bibliography

Wang, F., Yu, H., Xu, H., & Zhao, N. (2015). HPbI3: A New Precursor Compound for Highly Efficient SolutionâProcessed Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials, 25(7), 1120â1126. Portico.

Authors 4

Feng Wang (first)
Hui Yu (additional)
Haihua Xu (additional)
Ni Zhao (additional)

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Created	10 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 7, 2015, 3:28 a.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 11 months ago (Oct. 6, 2023, 2:48 p.m.)
Indexed	1 month, 1 week ago (July 30, 2025, 8:32 p.m.)
Issued	10 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 7, 2015)
Published	10 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 7, 2015)
Published Online	10 years, 7 months ago (Jan. 7, 2015)
Published Print	10 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 2015)

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@article{Wang_2015, title={HPbI3: A New Precursor Compound for Highly Efficient Solution‐Processed Perovskite Solar Cells}, volume={25}, ISSN={1616-3028}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201404007}, DOI={10.1002/adfm.201404007}, number={7}, journal={Advanced Functional Materials}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Wang, Feng and Yu, Hui and Xu, Haihua and Zhao, Ni}, year={2015}, month=jan, pages={1120–1126} }

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