Interfacial charge-transfer doping of metal halide perovskites for high performance photovoltaics
Abstract
We demonstrate a method for controlled p-doping of the halide perovskite surface using molecular dopants, resulting in reduced non-radiative recombination losses and improved device performance.
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- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Clarendon Lab.
- Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1558898
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1556794
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-72211
Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692; EESNBY
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy & Environmental Science
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1754-5692
- Publisher:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; perovskite solar cells; interface modification; carbon nanotubes; p-doping
Citation Formats
Noel, Nakita K., Habisreutinger, Severin N., Pellaroque, Alba, Pulvirenti, Federico, Wenger, Bernard, Zhang, Fengyu, Lin, Yen-Hung, Reid, Obadiah G., Leisen, Johannes, Zhang, Yadong, Barlow, Stephen, Marder, Seth R., Kahn, Antoine, Snaith, Henry J., Arnold, Craig B., and Rand, Barry P. Interfacial charge-transfer doping of metal halide perovskites for high performance photovoltaics. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1039/C9EE01773A.
Noel, Nakita K., Habisreutinger, Severin N., Pellaroque, Alba, Pulvirenti, Federico, Wenger, Bernard, Zhang, Fengyu, Lin, Yen-Hung, Reid, Obadiah G., Leisen, Johannes, Zhang, Yadong, Barlow, Stephen, Marder, Seth R., Kahn, Antoine, Snaith, Henry J., Arnold, Craig B., & Rand, Barry P. Interfacial charge-transfer doping of metal halide perovskites for high performance photovoltaics. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EE01773A
Noel, Nakita K., Habisreutinger, Severin N., Pellaroque, Alba, Pulvirenti, Federico, Wenger, Bernard, Zhang, Fengyu, Lin, Yen-Hung, Reid, Obadiah G., Leisen, Johannes, Zhang, Yadong, Barlow, Stephen, Marder, Seth R., Kahn, Antoine, Snaith, Henry J., Arnold, Craig B., and Rand, Barry P. Mon .
"Interfacial charge-transfer doping of metal halide perovskites for high performance photovoltaics". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EE01773A. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1558898.
@article{osti_1558898,
title = {Interfacial charge-transfer doping of metal halide perovskites for high performance photovoltaics},
author = {Noel, Nakita K. and Habisreutinger, Severin N. and Pellaroque, Alba and Pulvirenti, Federico and Wenger, Bernard and Zhang, Fengyu and Lin, Yen-Hung and Reid, Obadiah G. and Leisen, Johannes and Zhang, Yadong and Barlow, Stephen and Marder, Seth R. and Kahn, Antoine and Snaith, Henry J. and Arnold, Craig B. and Rand, Barry P.},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate a method for controlled p-doping of the halide perovskite surface using molecular dopants, resulting in reduced non-radiative recombination losses and improved device performance.},
doi = {10.1039/C9EE01773A},
journal = {Energy & Environmental Science},
number = 10,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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