Planar FAPbBr3 Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency above 10%

Bromide-based hybrid perovskites are of particular interest not only due to the fact that they offer a way to go beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit via the tandem cell scheme but single junction devices of them can also achieve reasonably high efficiency with high stability for solar energy conversion. However, the highest power conversion efficiency achieved up to now for FAPbBr(3) single-junction solar cells is only 8.2%, which is far below the efficiency of-17% predicted from detailed balance analysis. Here, a two-step method (the intermolecule exchange pathway) was systematically optimized for the fabrication of high quality FAPbBr(3) films. A molecule of urea, structurally similar to formamidinium, is introduced as an additive to tune the intermolecular ion exchange procedure. SnO2 is introduced as an electron-selective contact to the planar structured FAPbBr(3) solar cells. As a result, a power conversion efficiency of 10.61% and a V-oc of 1.56 V are achieved with planar structured solar cells, both of which represent the highest value ever reported for FAPbBr(3) solar cells.