Advanced Science (Mar 2018)

The Dawn of Lead‐Free Perovskite Solar Cell: Highly Stable Double Perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6 Film

  • Cuncun Wu,
  • Qiaohui Zhang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Wei Luo,
  • Xuan Guo,
  • Ziru Huang,
  • Hungkit Ting,
  • Weihai Sun,
  • Xinrui Zhong,
  • Shiyuan Wei,
  • Shufeng Wang,
  • Zhijian Chen,
  • Lixin Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201700759
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Recently, lead‐free double perovskites have emerged as a promising environmentally friendly photovoltaic material for their intrinsic thermodynamic stability, appropriate bandgaps, small carrier effective masses, and low exciton binding energies. However, currently no solar cell based on these double perovskites has been reported, due to the challenge in film processing. Herein, a first lead‐free double perovskite planar heterojunction solar cell with a high quality Cs2AgBiBr6 film, fabricated by low‐pressure assisted solution processing under ambient conditions, is reported. The device presents a best power conversion efficiency of 1.44%. The preliminary efficiency and the high stability under ambient condition without encapsulation, together with the high film quality with simple processing, demonstrate promise for lead‐free perovskite solar cells.

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