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Dimension-Controlled Growth of Antimony-Based Perovskite-like Halides for Lead-Free and Semitransparent Photovoltaics

Yang, Yi
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Liu, Cheng
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Cai, Molang
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April 8, 2020
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Antimony (Sb) has been identified as a promising candidate for replacing toxic lead (Pb) in perovskite materials because Sb-based perovskite-like halides exhibit not only intrinsic thermodynamic stability but also a unique set of intriguing optoelectronic characteristics. However, Sb-based perovskite-like halides still suffer from poor film morphology and uncontrollable halide constituents, which result from the disorder of the growth process. Herein, we propose a simple strategy to facilitate heterogeneous nucleation and control the dimension transformation by introducing bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide lithium (LiTFSI), which produces high-quality two-dimensional MA(3)Sb(2)I(9-x)Cl(x) films. As the spacer molecule among Sb-based pyramidal clusters, LiTFSI plays a role in forming a zero-dimensional intermediate phase and retarding crystallization. The slower dimension transformation well stabilizes the band gap of perovskite-like films with a fixed Cl/I ratio (similar to 7:2) and avoids random "x" values in MA(3)Sb(2)I(9-x)Cl(x) films prepared from the conventional method. Based on this method, Sb-based perovskite-like solar cells (PLSCs) achieve the highest recorded power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 3.34% and retain 90% of the initial PCE after being stored under ambient conditions for over 1400 h. More importantly, semitransparent Sb-based PLSCs with PCEs from 2.62 to 3.06% and average visible transparencies from 42 to 23% are successfully obtained, which indicates the great potential of the emerging Pb-free halide semiconductor for broad photovoltaic applications.

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DOI
10.1021/acsami.0c00681
Web of Science ID

WOS:000526583500115

Author(s)
Yang, Yi
Liu, Cheng
Cai, Molang
Liao, Yinjie
Ding, Yong
Ma, Shuang
Liu, Xuepeng
Guli, Mina
Dai, Songyuan
Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja  
Date Issued

2020-04-08

Published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume

12

Issue

14

Start page

17062

End page

17069

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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