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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 939-+Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03414
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- DFG [KI-1571/2-1, RA 473/7-1]
- Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000464]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
- DFG [KI-1571/2-1, RA 473/7-1]
- Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000464]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics
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Metal-halide perovskite (MHP) solar cells exhibit long nonradiative lifetimes as a crucial feature enabling high efficiencies. Long nonradiative lifetimes occur if the transfer of electronic into vibrational energy is slow due to, e.g., a low trap density, weak electron phonon coupling, or the requirement to release many phonons in the electronic transition. Here, we combine known material properties of MHPs with basic models for electron phonon coupling and multiphonon-transition rates in polar semiconductors. We find that the low phonon energies of MAPbI(3) lead to a strong dependence of recombination rates on trap position, which we deduce from the underlying physical effects determining nonradiative transitions. This is important for nonradiative recombination in MHPs, as it implies that they are rather insensitive to defects that are not at midgap energy, which can lead to long lifetimes. Therefore, the low phonon energies of MHPs are likely an important factor for their optoelectronic performance.
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