TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mohammadi, Mahdi
AU  - Gholipour, Somayeh
AU  - Malekshahi Byranvand, Mahdi
AU  - Abdi, Yaser
AU  - Taghavinia, Nima
AU  - Saliba, Michael
TI  - Encapsulation Strategies for Highly Stable Perovskite Solar Cells under Severe Stress Testing: Damp Heat, Freezing, and Outdoor Illumination Conditions
JO  - ACS applied materials & interfaces
VL  - 13
IS  - 38
SN  - 1944-8244
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Soc.
M1  - FZJ-2021-05677
SP  - 45455 - 45464
PY  - 2021
AB  - A key direction toward managing extrinsic instabilities in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is encapsulation. Thus, a suitable sealing layer is required for an efficient device encapsulation, preventing moisture and oxygen ingression into the perovskite layer. In this work, a solution-based, low-cost, and commercially available bilayer structure of poly(methyl methacrylate)/styrene-butadiene (PMMA/SB) is investigated for PSCs encapsulation. Encapsulated devices retained 80% of the initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) at 85 °C temperature and 85% relative humidity after 100 h, while reference devices without SB (only PMMA) suffer from rapid and intense degradation after only 2 h, under the same condition. In addition, encapsulated devices retained 95% of the initial PCE under −15 °C freezing temperature after 6 h and retained ∼80% of the initial PCE after immersion in HCl (37%) for 90 min. Moreover, applying an additional aluminum metal sheet on the PMMA/SB protective bilayer leads to the improvement of device stability up to 500 h under outdoor illumination, retaining almost 90% of the initial PCE. Considering the urge to develop reliable, scalable, and simple encapsulation for future large-area PSCs, this work establishes solution-based bilayer encapsulation, which is applicable for flexible solar modules as well as other optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting devices and photodetectors.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 34528780
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000703995900032
DO  - DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c11628
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904107
ER  -