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Title: Nanocrystal‐Enabled Perovskite Heterojunctions in Photovoltaic Applications and Beyond

Journal Article · · Advanced Energy Materials

Abstract Heterojunctions are used to tailor the properties of semiconductors in optoelectronic devices, yet for emerging devices composed of metal halide perovskites, fabricating perovskite/perovskite heterojunctions has proved challenging due to solvent incompatibilities and rapid homogenization due to ion migration. Recent studies have demonstrated various strategies for using perovskite nanocrystals as a component to fabricate perovskite/perovskite heterojunctions, either with a perovskite thin film or a second nanocrystal layer. Heterojunctions such as these can impart many advantages of both bulk and nanocrystalline perovskite morphologies. This perspective focuses on recent developments of solution‐processed perovskite heterojunctions for solar cells and novel optoelectronic devices, in particular, highlighting the demonstrated and potential advantages of nanocrystal‐enabled fabrication strategies. A central tenet of this perspective is that the synthesis and dispersion of perovskite nanocrystals in non‐polar organic solvents offers a key processing advantage over traditional perovskite precursor solutions in polar solvents since the former allows for layer‐by‐layer deposition without dissolving an underlying perovskite film or crystal. This processing advantage, coupled with nanocrystal size control and ligand chemistry, enables perovskite heterojunctions with highly tunable optical and electrical properties. Such heterojunctions may enable disruptive technological advances in broad classes of devices such as solar cells, photodetectors, sensors, and (in)coherent photon sources with tunable polarization.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1971405
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1973220; OSTI ID: 1983444
Journal Information:
Advanced Energy Materials, Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Issue: 22 Vol. 13; ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

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