Vapor Phase Infiltration Improves Thermal Stability of Organic Layers in Perovskite Solar Cells AITranslate

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DOI：https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02272

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Despite the rapid increase in power conversion efficiency (PCE) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) over the past decade, stability remains a major roadblock to commercialization. This work shows vapor phase infiltration (VPI) as a tool to create hybrid organic–inorganic layers that improve the stability of organic charge transport layers, such as hole-selective spiro-OMeTAD in PSCs and in other organic electronic devices. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS), and grazing incident wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS), we identify that infiltration of TiOx via VPI hinders the crystallization of the spiro-OMeTAD layer by likely preventing the π–π stacking of the molecules. Infiltrated PSCs retained more than 80% of their original efficiency after an operando stability test of 200 h at 75 °C, double the efficiency retained by devices without infiltration, in which the efficiency rapidly decreases in the first 50 h. This work provides a blueprint for using VPI to stabilize organic charge transport layers via prevention of π–π stacking leading to deleterious crystallization that shortens device lifetimes.