Laser fabricated carbon quantum dots in anti-solvent for highly efficient carbon-based perovskite solar cells

Shuhan Li; Yang Li; Ke Liu; Mengwei Chen; Weidong Peng; Yingping Yang; Xiangyou Li

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.034

Laser fabricated carbon quantum dots in anti-solvent for highly efficient carbon-based perovskite solar cells

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2021 Oct 15:600:691-700. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.034. Epub 2021 May 11.

Authors

Shuhan Li¹, Yang Li¹, Ke Liu¹, Mengwei Chen², Weidong Peng², Yingping Yang³, Xiangyou Li⁴

Affiliations

¹ Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
² Department of Physics, School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China.
³ Department of Physics, School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan 430070, China. Electronic address: ypyang@whut.edu.cn.
⁴ Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China. Electronic address: xyli@mail.hust.edu.cn.

PMID: 34049024
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2021.05.034

Abstract

Additive passivation can be an effective strategy to regulate and control the properties of organic-inorganic halide perovskite film. In this article, carbon quantum dots (CQDs), fabricated by non-focused laser irradiation of carbon nanomaterial diluted in anti-solvent ethyl acetate, denoted as EACQDs, were adopted for perovskite film defect passivation and modification of carbon-based CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The size of EACQDs can be tuned by manipulating the laser fluence. The morphology of perovskite film was uncovered through scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. After embedding of EACQDs, the defect in perovskite crystal was reduced, resulting in the decreased carrier recombination and accelerated carrier transportation, which were demonstrated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, photoluminescence and time-resolved photoluminescence. As a consequence, with the optimization of 0.01 mg/mL EACQDs (1064 nm-300 mJ·pulse^-1·cm^-2-10 min), the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of carbon-based PSCs achieved a maximum value of 16.43%, which improved 23.81% when compared with the pristine PSCs of 13.27%. Furthermore, the EACQDs optimized PSCs also exhibited an excellent stability and still retained 86% of its initial PCE after 50-day storage at the room atmosphere with a humidity of 30-50%.

Keywords: Anti-solvent; Carbon quantum dots; Carbon-based perovskite solar cells; Defect passivation; Non-focused laser irradiation.