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Impeded degradation of perovskite solar cells via the dual interfacial modification of siloxane

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It is challenging to improve the long-term stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) without sacrificing efficiency. The perovskite absorbers degrade from the film surface/interfaces, which follows entangled mechanisms that have not been fully revealed yet. Herein, we decouple and elaborate two distinctive pathways regarding film degradation based on FACsPbI3 perovskites. Moreover, a dual interfacial modification strategy has been developed for improving the material’s intrinsic stability, thus leading to the film degrading in a more retardant pathway. The corresponding PSCs achieve a stable power output efficiency of 23.75%. More importantly, the unencapsulated PSCs devices retain over 93% of their initial PCE after the maximum power point (MPP) tracking under the continuous 1-sun illumination and show significantly improved stability after aged under the thermal treatment or stored in ambient atmosphere for over 1500 hours without obvious PCE decay. This work shows the importance of modulating the degradation pathway on stability improvement, and at the same time, proposes a strategy for designing perovskite-based optoelectronics with excellent performance and stability.

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The work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21975028, 52172182, 22011540377), and the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (JQ19008).

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xiao Zhang, Yang Bai, Cheng Zhu, Sai Ma, Zhenhua Cui, Congbo Shi, Chenxiao Zhou, Guizhou Yuan, Jie Dou, Hao Wang & Qi Chen

  2. Experimental Center of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xiao Zhang, Yang Bai, Cheng Zhu, Sai Ma, Zhenhua Cui, Congbo Shi, Chenxiao Zhou, Guizhou Yuan, Jie Dou, Hao Wang & Qi Chen

  3. Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Changsu Cao, Hai Xiao & Jun Li

  4. Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Jun Li

  5. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Huachao Zai, Yihua Chen & Huanping Zhou

  6. Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), Zhangjiang Lab, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, China

    Chenyue Wang

  7. School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Ziyan Gao & Jiawang Hong

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Zhang, X., Cao, C., Bai, Y. et al. Impeded degradation of perovskite solar cells via the dual interfacial modification of siloxane. Sci. China Chem. 65, 2299–2306 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1381-1

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