Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 524-538Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03221
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- Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts in China
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0201204]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11404131]
- National National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics
- Special Fund for Talent Exploitation in Jilin Province of China
- Office of Science, Basic Energy Science, MSE Division [DE-FG02-13ER46959]
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material class of hybrid organic inorganic perovskites has risen rapidly from a virtually unknown material in photovoltaic applications a short 7 years ago into an similar to 20% efficient thin-film solar cell material. As promising as this class of materials is, however, there are limitations associated with its poor long-term stability, nonoptimal band gap, presence of environmentally toxic Pb element, etc. We herein apply a functionality-directed theoretical materials selection approach as a filter for initial screening of the compounds that satisfy the desired intrinsic photovoltaic functionalities and might overcome the above limitations. First-principles calculations are employed to systemically study thermodynamic stability and photovoltaic-related properties of hundreds of candidate hybrid perovskites. We have identified in this materials selection process 14 Ge- and Sn-based materials with potential superior bulk-material-intrinsic photovoltaic performance. A distinct class of compounds containing NH3COH(+) with the organic molecule derived states intriguingly emerging at band-edges is found. Comparison of various candidate materials offers insights on how composition variation and microscopic structural changes affect key photovoltaic relevant properties in this family of materials.
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