Monitoring a Silent Phase Transition in CH3NH3PbI3 Solar Cells via Operando X-ray Diffraction

Schelhas, Laura T.; Christians, Jeffrey A.; Berry, Joseph J.; Toney, Michael F.; Tassone, Christopher J.; Luther, Joseph M.; Stone, Kevin H.

doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00441

Monitoring a Silent Phase Transition in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ Solar Cells via Operando X-ray Diffraction

Journal Article · Thu Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · ACS Energy Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00441· OSTI ID:1332911

Schelhas, Laura T. ^[1]; Christians, Jeffrey A. ^[2]; Berry, Joseph J. ^[2]; Toney, Michael F. ^[1]; Tassone, Christopher J. ^[1]; Luther, Joseph M. ^[2]; Stone, Kevin H. ^[1]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The relatively modest temperature of the tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite is likely to occur during real world operation of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ solar cells. In this work, we simultaneously monitor the structural phase transition of the active layer along with solar cell performance as a function of the device operating temperature. The tetragonal to cubic phase transition is observed in the working device to occur reversibly at temperatures between 60.5 and 65.4 degrees C. In these operando measurements, no discontinuity in the device performance is observed, indicating electronic behavior that is insensitive to the structural phase transition. Here, this decoupling of device performance from the change in long-range order across the phase transition suggests that the optoelectronic properties are primarily determined by the local structure in CH₃NH₃PbI₃. That is, while the average crystal structure as probed by X-ray diffraction shows a transition from tetragonal to cubic, the local structure generally remains well characterized by uncorrelated, dynamic octahedral rotations that order at elevated temperatures but are unchanged locally.

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Research Organization:: NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States))

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Solar Energy Technologies Office (EE-4S); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1332911

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA--5900-67115

Journal Information:: ACS Energy Letters, Journal Name: ACS Energy Letters Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 1; ISSN 2380-8195

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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