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Why Lead Methylammonium Tri-Iodide Perovskite-Based Solar Cells Require a Mesoporous Electron Transporting Scaffold (but Not Necessarily a Hole Conductor)

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NANO LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 1000-1004

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl404454h

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Perovskite solar cell; organic-inorganic lead halide; photovoltaic; electron beam induced current; scanning kelvin probe force microscopy

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  1. Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust
  2. Israel Ministry of Science's Tashtiot program
  3. Israel National Nano-Initiative's Focused Technology Area program
  4. Nancy and Stephen Grand Center for Sensors and Security
  5. Weizmann-U.K. Joint Research Program

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CH3NH3PbI3-based solar cells were characterized with electron beam-induced current (EBIC) and compared to CH3NH3PbI3-xClx ones. A spatial map of charge separation efficiency in working cells shows p-i-n structures for both thin film cells. Effective diffusion lengths, L-D, (from EBIC profile) show that holes are extracted significantly more efficiently than electrons in CH3NH3PbI3, explaining why CH3NH3PbI3-based cells require mesoporous electron conductors, while CH3NH3PbI3-xClx ones, where L-D values are comparable for both charge types, do not.

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