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Highly Crystalline Methylammonium Lead Tribromide Perovskite Films for Efficient Photovoltaic Devices

2018; American Chemical Society; Volume: 3; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00509

ISSN

2380-8195

Autores

Nakita K. Noel, Bernard Wenger, Severin N. Habisreutinger, Jay B. Patel, Timothy W. Crothers, Zhiping Wang, R. J. Nicholas, Michael B. Johnston, Laura M. Herz, Henry J. Snaith,

Tópico(s)

Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography

Resumo

The rise of metal-halide perovskite solar cells has captivated the research community, promising to disrupt the current energy landscape. While a sizable percentage of the research done on this class of materials has been focused on the neat and iodide-rich perovskites, bromide-based perovskites can deliver substantially higher voltages because of their relatively wide band gaps of over 2 eV. The potential for efficient, high-voltage devices makes materials such as these incredibly attractive for multijunction photovoltaic applications. Here, we use the acetonitrile/methylamine solvent system to deposit smooth, highly crystalline films of CH3NH3PbBr3. By using choline chloride as a passivating agent for these films, we achieve photoluminescence quantum efficiencies of up to 5.5% and demonstrate charge-carrier mobilities of 17.8 cm2/(V s). Incorporating these films into photovoltaic devices, we achieve scanned power conversion efficiencies of up to 8.9%, with stabilized efficiencies of 7.6%, providing a simple route to realizing efficient, high-voltage CH3NH3PbBr3 planar-heterojunction devices.

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