Issue 9, 2019

N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone as an excellent coordinative additive with a wide operating range for fabricating high-quality perovskite films

Abstract

We demonstrate in this work that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) is a superior alternative to dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as an additive in a precursor solution for the fabrication of high-quality perovskite films for solar cells. While the DMSO-assisted method always requires the films to be prepared with a low and restricted PdI2 : DMSO ratio, NMP provides a much wider window of the PbI2/NMP ratio for the preparation of high-quality perovskite films. The systematic studies on the structures of intermediates obtained with different PbI2/NMP ratios reveal that only one kind of intermediate forms regardless of the Pb2+/NMP ratio between 1 and 4, which is totally different from the situation of a PbI2/DMSO system. But all the perovskite solar cell devices fabricated with different Pb2+/NMP ratios show similar performances to their counterpart fabricated with 1 : 1 Pb2+/DMSO. Besides the MAPbI3 (MA = CH3NH3+) system, NMP is shown to be an excellent coordinative additive for the fabrication of high-quality triple-cation (Cs+/formamidinium/MA) perovskite films.

Graphical abstract: N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone as an excellent coordinative additive with a wide operating range for fabricating high-quality perovskite films

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Article information

Article type
Research Article
Submitted
14 May 2019
Accepted
27 Jul 2019
First published
29 Jul 2019

Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019,6, 2458-2463

N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone as an excellent coordinative additive with a wide operating range for fabricating high-quality perovskite films

F. Cheng, X. Jing, R. Chen, J. Cao, J. Yan, Y. Wu, X. Huang, B. Wu and N. Zheng, Inorg. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 2458 DOI: 10.1039/C9QI00547A

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