title: The Effect of Humidity upon the Crystallization Process of Two-Step Spin-Coated Organic-Inorganic Perovskites.
abstract: Moisture is shown to activate the reaction between PbI2 and methylammonium halides. In addition, two activating mechanisms are proposed for the formation of CH3 NH3 PbI3 and CH3 NH3 PbI3-x Clx films from a series of carefully controlled experiments. When these rapidly formed perovskite films are directly fabricated into the devices, poor photovoltaic properties are found, due to heavy surface charge recombination. However, the cell performance can be significantly enhanced to 13.63 % and to over 12 % in the steady state for CH3 NH3 PbI3 and to 15.50 % and over 14 % in the steady state for CH3 NH3 PbI3-x Clx , if the rapidly formed perovskite film is annealed. Thus, it is believed that moisture (below 60 % RH) is not a problem for the fabrication of highly efficient perovskite solar cells.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yuzhuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Jiangjian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Junyan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Huijue
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yanhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. qbmeng@iphy.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Renewable Energy, Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China. dmli@iphy.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Qingbo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Meng
keywords: energy conversion; mesoporous materials; perovskite solar cells; semiconductors; spin coating