Melt-Processed Halide Perovskite Thin Films from a Two-Dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper Phase Precursor

Hadi, Atefe; Schlichtmann, Rainie L.; Milot, Matthew I.; Slobidsky, Jonathan; Wilsey, Madeleine; Verburg, Alex; Chen, Yunhua; Hamdeh, Umar H.; Ryan, Bradley J.; Boote, Brett; Vela, Javier; Panthani, Matthew G.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03916

Melt-Processed Halide Perovskite Thin Films from a Two-Dimensional Ruddlesden–Popper Phase Precursor

Journal Article · Wed May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03916· OSTI ID:1999366

^[1]; ^[1]; Milot, Matthew I. ^[1]; Slobidsky, Jonathan ^[1]; ^[2]; Verburg, Alex ^[1]; Chen, Yunhua ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[1]; Boote, Brett ^[1]; ^[3]; ^[1]

Iowa State University, Ames, IA (United States)
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Ames Laboratory, and Iowa State University, Ames, IA (United States)

While halide perovskite thin films have enormous potential for photovoltaics and other optoelectronics, the use of environmentally hazardous solvents during their deposition and processing poses a barrier to their commercialization. In this work, we demonstrated the deposition of melt-processable precursors and subsequent transformation into halide perovskite thin films without using environmentally hazardous solvents. We melted the wide-bandgap layered perovskites [(C₆H₅CH(CH₃)CH₂NH₃)₂PbI₄:β-Me-PEA₂PbI₄] at ~210 °C and blade coated them into films. The β-Me-PEA₂PbI₄ films were subsequently transformed to perovskite-phase methylammonium or formamidinium lead iodide films using a cation-exchange process in an alcohol-based solvent. Lastly, we demonstrate the potential and limitations of a completely solvent-free approach that uses solid-state transformation of a β-Me-PEA₂PbI₄ film. As a result, this work represents a substantial step toward eliminating environmentally hazardous solvents and enables inexpensive industrial-scale liquid-phase deposition processes that do not require expensive systems for handling and disposing of environmentally hazardous solvents.

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Research Organization:: Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR); USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11358

OSTI ID:: 1999366

Report Number(s):: IS-J--11,092

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 14; ISSN 1948-7185

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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