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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 144, Issue 12, Pages 5543-5551Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00319
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- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [2212031]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51861135101, 21973006, 21520102005]
- Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts of China
- Beijing Normal University
- US Department of Energy [DE-SC0014429]
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Alkaline earth metals can passivate metal halide perovskites exposed to oxygen, eliminating oxidizing species and charge traps, and extending the lifetime of charge carriers.
Exposure to oxygen undermines stability and charge transport in metal halide perovskites, because molecular oxygen, as well as photogenerated superoxide and peroxide, erodes the perovskite lattice and creates charge traps. We demonstrate that alkaline earth metals passivate the oxygen species in CH3NH3PbI3 by breaking the O-O bond and forming new bonds with the oxygen atoms, shifting the trap states of the antibonding O-O orbitals from inside the bandgap into the bands. In addition to eliminating the oxidizing species and the charge traps, doping with the alkaline earth metals slightly increases the bandgap and partially localizes the electron and hole wavefunctions, weakening the electron-hole and charge-phonon interactions and making the charge carrier lifetimes longer than even those in pristine CH3NH3PbI3. Relative to CH3NH3PbI3 exposed to oxygen and light, the charge carrier lifetime of the passivated CH3NH3PbI3 increases by 2-3 orders of magnitude. The ab initio quantum dynamics simulations demonstrate that alkaline earth metals passivate efficiently not only intrinsic perovskite defects, but also the foreign species, providing a viable strategy to suppress perovskite degradation.
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