A facile surface passivation method for efficient inorganic CsPbI2Br perovskite solar cells with efficiencies over 15%

Recently, perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) based on CsPbI2Br have attracted increasing attention owing to their good balance between efficiency and stability. Solution-processed CsPbI2Br perovskites usually contain various defects which need passivation for PVSCs with high-performance as well as good stability. Since the degradation of perovskite films usually begins at the grain boundaries, here we report a facile defect passivation strategy by spin-coating a KF solution on the CsPbI2Br perovskite surface. The deposited KF salt mostly locates at the grain boundaries of the perovskite surface, resulting in PVSCs with improved stability. Both steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence results suggest that the defects of perovskite were significantly passivated by KF treatment. Consequently, the best-performance PVSC based on CsPbI2Br with KF treatment shows an enhanced power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 15.01% with a larger open circuit voltage (VOC) of 1.26 V in comparison with the pristine CsPbI2Br-based counterpart which exhibits an inferior PCE of 14.14% with a VOC of 1.18 V.