Organic-semiconductor-assisted dielectric screening effect for stable and efficient perovskite solar cells

Perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) performance is essentially limited by severe non-radiative losses and ion migration. Although numerous strategies have been proposed, challenges remain in the basic understanding of their origins. Here, we report a dielectric-screening-enhancement effect for perovskite defects by using organic semiconductors with finely tuned molecular structures from the atoms level. Our method produced various perovskite films with high dielectric constant values, reduced charge capture regions, suppressed ion migration, and it provides an efficient charge transport pathway for suppressing non-radiative recombination beyond the passivation effect. The resulting pero-SCs showed a promising power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 23.35% with a high open-circuit voltage (1.22 V); and the 1-cm2 pero-SCs maintained an excellent PCE (21.93%), showing feasibility for scalable fabrication. The robust operational and thermal stabilities revealed that this method paved a new way to understand the degradation mechanism of pero-SCs, promoting the efficiency, stability and scaled fabrication of the pero-SCs. (c) 2022 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights reserved.