Engineering Surface Orientations for Efficient and Stable Hybrid Perovskite Single-Crystal Solar Cells

Chen Yang; Jun Yin; Hong Li; Khulud Almasabi; Luis Gutiérrez-Arzaluz; Issam Gereige; Jean Luc Brédas; Osman M. Bakr; Omar F. Mohammed

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00431

Engineering Surface Orientations for Efficient and Stable Hybrid Perovskite Single-Crystal Solar Cells

Chen Yang, Jun Yin^*, Hong Li, Khulud Almasabi, Luis Gutiérrez-Arzaluz, Issam Gereige, Jean Luc Brédas^*, Osman M. Bakr^*, Omar F. Mohammed^*

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We synthesized two types of MAPbI₃single-crystal films with dominant (001) and (100) surface orientations for solar cells. We found that both MAPbI₃(001) and (100) single-crystal films have efficient hole transfer into poly(triaryl)amine (PTAA), as evident from the reduced photoluminescence (PL) intensity and lifetime, as well as the type-II energy alignment. Unlike a MAPbI₃(100) single-crystal film with a strong PL quenching due to efficient electron transfer to phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), the MAPbI₃(001) single-crystal film exhibits an increase in PL intensity in the presence of PCBM, which can be attributed to surface passivation. Interestingly, different from the conventional MAPbI₃(100) that suffers from a significant decrease in the PCE (from 19.3 to 14.4%), the MAPbI₃(001) single-crystal film shows an increase in the PCE (from 16.0 to 17.2%)

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1544-1552
Number of pages	9
Journal	ACS Energy Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00431
State	Published - Apr 8 2022

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