Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 2334-2341Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b12627
Keywords
perovskite; grain growth; carrier lifetime; cadmium incorporation; low-dimensional perovskites; two-step deposition; nonradiative recombination
Funding
- Air Force Research Laboratory [FA9453-11-C-0253]
- National Science Foundation [CHE-1230246]
- Wright Center Endowment for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization
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Control over grain size and crystallinity is important for preparation of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) solar cells. We explore the effects of using small concentrations of Cd2+ and unusually high concentrations of methylammonium iodide during the growth of MAPbI(3) in the two-step solution process. In addition to improved crystallinity and an enhancement in the size of the grains, time-resolved photoluminescence measurements indicated a dramatic increase in the carrier lifetime. As a result, devices constructed with the Cd-modified perovskites showed nearly a factor of 2 improvement in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) relative to similar devices prepared without Cd addition. The grains also showed a higher degree of orientation in the < 110 > direction, indicating a change in the growth mechanism, and the films were compact and smooth. We propose a Cd-modified film growth mechanism that invokes a critical role for low-dimensional Cd perovskites to explain the experimental observations.
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