Ultrafast Imaging of Carrier Transport across Grain Boundaries in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films
Abstract
For optoelectronic devices based on polycrystalline semiconducting thin films, carrier transport across grain boundaries is an important process in defining efficiency. Here we employ transient absorption microscopy (TAM) to directly measure carrier transport within and across the boundaries in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite thin films for solar cell applications with 50 nm spatial precision and 300 fs temporal resolution. By selectively imaging sub-bandgap states, our results show that lateral carrier transport is slowed down by these states at the grain boundaries. However, the long carrier lifetimes allow for efficient transport across the grain boundaries. The carrier diffusion constant is reduced by about a factor of 2 for micron-sized grain samples by the grain boundaries. For grain sizes on the order of ~200 nm, carrier transport over multiple grains has been observed within a time window of 5 ns. These observations explain both the shortened photoluminescence lifetimes at the boundaries as well as the seemingly benign nature of the grain boundaries in carrier generation.
- Authors:
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- Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1468735
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-71299
Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Energy Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; optoelectronic devices; semiconducting thin films; polycrystalline; carrier transport
Citation Formats
Snaider, Jordan M., Guo, Zhi, Wang, Ti, Yang, Mengjin, Yuan, Long, Zhu, Kai, and Huang, Libai. Ultrafast Imaging of Carrier Transport across Grain Boundaries in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00560.
Snaider, Jordan M., Guo, Zhi, Wang, Ti, Yang, Mengjin, Yuan, Long, Zhu, Kai, & Huang, Libai. Ultrafast Imaging of Carrier Transport across Grain Boundaries in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00560
Snaider, Jordan M., Guo, Zhi, Wang, Ti, Yang, Mengjin, Yuan, Long, Zhu, Kai, and Huang, Libai. Mon .
"Ultrafast Imaging of Carrier Transport across Grain Boundaries in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00560. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1468735.
@article{osti_1468735,
title = {Ultrafast Imaging of Carrier Transport across Grain Boundaries in Hybrid Perovskite Thin Films},
author = {Snaider, Jordan M. and Guo, Zhi and Wang, Ti and Yang, Mengjin and Yuan, Long and Zhu, Kai and Huang, Libai},
abstractNote = {For optoelectronic devices based on polycrystalline semiconducting thin films, carrier transport across grain boundaries is an important process in defining efficiency. Here we employ transient absorption microscopy (TAM) to directly measure carrier transport within and across the boundaries in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite thin films for solar cell applications with 50 nm spatial precision and 300 fs temporal resolution. By selectively imaging sub-bandgap states, our results show that lateral carrier transport is slowed down by these states at the grain boundaries. However, the long carrier lifetimes allow for efficient transport across the grain boundaries. The carrier diffusion constant is reduced by about a factor of 2 for micron-sized grain samples by the grain boundaries. For grain sizes on the order of ~200 nm, carrier transport over multiple grains has been observed within a time window of 5 ns. These observations explain both the shortened photoluminescence lifetimes at the boundaries as well as the seemingly benign nature of the grain boundaries in carrier generation.},
doi = {10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00560},
journal = {ACS Energy Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {5}
}
Web of Science
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