Synthesis of a Butterfly‐Shaped π‐Extended Dibenzazepine and Its Application in Interfacial Engineering for High‐Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) are key interfacial modifiers for inverted perovskite solar cells (IPSCs), yet their design is often constrained by a trade‐off between suppressing molecular aggregation and maintaining efficient charge transport. Here we introduce a π‐extended nonplanar molecular design to decouple interfacial morphology control from electronic coupling. Two tetracene‐fused SAM molecules, tetraceno‐fused carbazole phosphonic acid (PATCz) and tetraceno‐fused dibenzazepine phosphonic acid (PATDBAz), were synthesized via dehydrocyclization. While PATCz forms a helicene‐like twisted structure, PATDBAz adopts a butterfly‐shaped nonplanar geometry that enables Butterfly‐shaped π‐extended “wings” to form effective intermolecular π – π stacking while preventing excessive aggregation. This structural feature promotes ordered interfacial assembly, improved energy‐level alignment, and efficient hole transport. Consequently, PATDBAz‐based IPSCs achieve a champion power conversion efficiency of 26.47% and retain 97.5% of their initial efficiency after 1000 h under International Summit on Organic Photovoltaic Stability light‐soaking level 1 (ISOS‐L‐1) conditions. This work highlights π‐extended nonplanar frameworks as an effective strategy for designing high‐performance SAMs in perovskite photovoltaics.
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OpenAlex topics: Perovskite Materials and Applications · Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics · TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
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State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Department of Chemistry College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xiamen University Xiamen P. R. China
Xiamen Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Institute of Luminescent Materials and Information Displays College of Materials Science and Engineering Huaqiao University Xiamen Fujian China
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National Natural Science Foundation of China
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