Enhanced charge carrier mobility and lifetime suppress hysteresis and improve efficiency in planar perovskite solar cells

Turren-Cruz, Silver-Hamill; Saliba, Michael; Mayer, Matthew T.; Juárez-Santiesteban, Hector; Mathew, Xavier; Nienhaus, Lea; Tress, Wolfgang; Erodici, Matthew P.; Sher, Meng-Ju; Bawendi, Moungi G.; Grätzel, Michael; Abate, Antonio; Hagfeldt, Anders; Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo

doi:10.1039/C7EE02901B

Enhanced charge carrier mobility and lifetime suppress hysteresis and improve efficiency in planar perovskite solar cells

Journal Article · 01 January 2018 · Energy & Environmental Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C7EE02901B· OSTI ID:1470543

^[1]; ^[2]; ^[2]; Juárez-Santiesteban, Hector ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[5]; ^[2]; Erodici, Matthew P. ^[6]; Sher, Meng-Ju ^[6]; Bawendi, Moungi G. ^[5]; Grätzel, Michael ^[2]; ^[7]; ^[2]; ^[8]

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Station 6; CH-1015-Lausanne; Switzerland; Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. CIDS
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Station 6; CH-1015-Lausanne; Switzerland
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. CIDS; Av. San Claudio y 18 Sur; Col. San Manuel; Ciudad Universitaria; CP 72570
Instituto de Energías Renovables; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Temixco; Mexico
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Cambridge; USA
Wesleyan University; Middletown; USA
Young Investigator Group Active Materials and Interfaces for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie; Kekuléstrasse 5; 12489 Berlin; Germany
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Station 6; CH-1015-Lausanne; Switzerland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Planar perovskite solar cells yield efficiency of over 20%.

Research Organization:: Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0001088

OSTI ID:: 1470543

Journal Information:: Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 11, Issue 1; Related Information: CE partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Harvard University; ISSN 1754-5692

Publisher:: Royal Society of Chemistry

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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