Interface Engineering to Eliminate Hysteresis of Carbon-Based Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells via CuSCN Incorporation

作者：Yang Yang, Ngoc Duy Pham, Disheng Yao, Lijuan Fan, Minh Tam Hoang, Vincent Tiing Tiong, Zhaoxiang Wang, Huaiyong Zhu, Hongxia Wang · 发表于：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.1021/acsami.9b07318 · 被引用次数：90 · 研究领域：Perovskite Materials and Applications、Conducting polymers and applications、Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

A carbon electrode with low cost and high stability exhibited competitiveness for its practical application in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Nonetheless, issues such as poor interface contact with an adjacent perovskite layer and obvious hysteresis phenomenon are bottlenecks that need to be overcome to make carbon-based PSCs (C-PSCs) more attractive in practice. Herein, we report an effective method to enhance the interfacial charge transport of C-PSCs by introducing the CuSCN material into the device. Two types of CuSCN-assisted devices were studied in this work. One was based on the deposition of an ultrathin CuSCN layer between the perovskite absorber layer and the carbon cathode (PSK/CuSCN/C), and the other was by infiltrating CuSCN solution into the carbon film (PSK/C-CuSCN) by taking advantage of the macroporous structure of the carbon. We have found that the CuSCN incorporation by both methods can effectively address the hysteretic feature in planar C-PSCs. The origin for the hysteresis evolution was unraveled by the investigation of the energy alignment and the kinetics of interfacial charge transfer and hole trap-state density. The results have shown that both types of CuSCN-containing devices showed improved interfacial charge carrier extraction, suppressed carrier recombination, reduced trap-state density, and enhanced charge transport, leading to negligible hysteresis. Furthermore, the CuSCN-incorporated C-PSCs demonstrated enhanced devic...