The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI3
Abstract
Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) exhibits exceptional photovoltaic performance, but there remains substantial controversy over the existence and impact of ferroelectricity on the photovoltaic response. We confirm ferroelectricity in MAPbI3single crystals and demonstrate mediation of the electronic response by ferroelectric domain engineering. The ferroelectric response sharply declines above 57°C, consistent with the tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition. Concurrent band excitation piezoresponse force microscopy–contact Kelvin probe force microscopy shows that the measured response is not dominated by spurious electrostatic interactions. Large signal poling (>16 V/cm) orients the permanent polarization into large domains, which show stabilization over weeks. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy results indicate a shift of 400 meV in the binding energy of the iodine core level peaks upon poling, which is reflected in the carrier concentration results from scanning microwave impedance microscopy. The ability to control the ferroelectric response provides routes to increase device stability and photovoltaic performance through domain engineering.
- Authors:
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Institut Photovoltaique d'lle de France, Palaiseau (France)
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States)
- Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Next Generation of Materials by Design: Incorporating Metastability (CNGMD); National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1494979
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1560588
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5K00-68090
Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Science Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2375-2548
- Publisher:
- AAAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 42 ENGINEERING; MAPbI3; ferroelectricity; photovoltaics
Citation Formats
Garten, Lauren M., Moore, David T., Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Dwaraknath, Shyam, Schulz, Philip, Wands, Jake, Rockett, Angus, Newell, Brian, Persson, Kristin A., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, and Ginley, David S. The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI3. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aas9311.
Garten, Lauren M., Moore, David T., Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Dwaraknath, Shyam, Schulz, Philip, Wands, Jake, Rockett, Angus, Newell, Brian, Persson, Kristin A., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, & Ginley, David S. The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI3. United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aas9311
Garten, Lauren M., Moore, David T., Nanayakkara, Sanjini U., Dwaraknath, Shyam, Schulz, Philip, Wands, Jake, Rockett, Angus, Newell, Brian, Persson, Kristin A., Trolier-McKinstry, Susan, and Ginley, David S. 2019.
"The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI3". United States. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aas9311. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1494979.
@article{osti_1494979,
title = {The existence and impact of persistent ferroelectric domains in MAPbI3},
author = {Garten, Lauren M. and Moore, David T. and Nanayakkara, Sanjini U. and Dwaraknath, Shyam and Schulz, Philip and Wands, Jake and Rockett, Angus and Newell, Brian and Persson, Kristin A. and Trolier-McKinstry, Susan and Ginley, David S.},
abstractNote = {Methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) exhibits exceptional photovoltaic performance, but there remains substantial controversy over the existence and impact of ferroelectricity on the photovoltaic response. We confirm ferroelectricity in MAPbI3single crystals and demonstrate mediation of the electronic response by ferroelectric domain engineering. The ferroelectric response sharply declines above 57°C, consistent with the tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition. Concurrent band excitation piezoresponse force microscopy–contact Kelvin probe force microscopy shows that the measured response is not dominated by spurious electrostatic interactions. Large signal poling (>16 V/cm) orients the permanent polarization into large domains, which show stabilization over weeks. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy results indicate a shift of 400 meV in the binding energy of the iodine core level peaks upon poling, which is reflected in the carrier concentration results from scanning microwave impedance microscopy. The ability to control the ferroelectric response provides routes to increase device stability and photovoltaic performance through domain engineering.},
doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aas9311},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1494979},
journal = {Science Advances},
issn = {2375-2548},
number = 1,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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