Dopant-free polymeric hole transport materials for efficient CsPbI2Br perovskite cells with a fill factor exceeding 84%

Abstract

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted extensive attention in recent years due to their excellent thermal stability. The CsPbI₂Br PSCs, combining the merits of stable CsPbBr₃ and efficient CsPbI₃, demonstrate tremendous application potential. In this work, n–i–p structured inorganic CsPbI₂Br PSCs are fabricated using ZnO as the electron transport material (ETM) and dopant-free PBDB-T and its derivatives as the hole transport materials (HTMs). Alkylsilyl-substituted PBDB-T (i.e.PBDB-T-Si) based devices demonstrate the best efficiency of 15.60% (compared to 14.20% of the PBDB-T based reference device) with an ultrahigh fill factor over 84% due to the deep highest occupied molecular orbital energy levels, superior hole mobility and quasi-ohmic contact characteristics. However, fluorine- and chlorine-substituted PBDB-T (i.e.PBDB-T-2F and PBDB-T-2Cl) based devices exhibit enhanced open circuit voltages but decreased short circuit current densities due to the unbalanced hole extraction and large leakage current at the interface, giving moderate efficiencies of 14.87 and 14.03%, respectively. Our work provides a sophisticated analysis of various optoelectronic properties of polymeric HTMs and points out that the quasi-ohmic/ohmic contact plays a critical role in determining device performance.