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Halide perovskites have emerged as revolutionary materials for high performance photovoltaics and optoelectronics due to their superior optoelectronic properties. The physical origin for the superior optoelectronic properties of halide…
The understanding of the mixed ionic-electronic nature of charge transport in Metal Halide Perovskites (MHPs) and the role of morphological and interface defects is crucial for improving the performance of MHP based photovoltaic devices. We…
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites have emerged as a disruptive new class of materials, exhibiting optimum properties for a broad range of optoelectronic applications, most notably for photovoltaics. The first report of highly…
Four {\pi}-extended phosphoniumfluorene electrolytes ({\pi}-PFEs) are introduced as hole-blocking layers (HBL) in inverted architecture planar perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) with the structure of ITO/PEDOT:PSS/MAPbI3/PCBM/HBL/Ag. The…
In recent years, halide perovskite-based solar cells have received intensive attention, and demonstrated power conversion efficiency as high as 25.8%. With regard to the toxicity of Pb and the instability of organic elements, all inorganic…
Recent research on perovskite solar cells has caught much attention for the application in renewable energy materials. However, the effect of external dopants on the performance of perovskite solar cell is yet to be understood properly.…
We present a time-domain technique based on rapid bias polarity switching (BiPS) to probe charge transport and near-surface defects in halide perovskite single crystals. The method exploits interfacial extraction barriers, which cause…
Solution combustion synthesized hole transport layer of co-doped spinel nickel cobaltite were fabricated using doctor-blading technique for planar inverted perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells incorporating Co-doped spinel nickel…
Light-harvesting devices made from PbS quantum dot (QD) absorbers are one of the many promising technologies of third-generation photovoltaics. Their simple, solution-based fabrication together with a highly tunable and broad light…
The observation of low energy edge photoluminescence and its beneficial effect on the solar cell efficiency of Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites has unleashed an intensive research effort to reveal its origin. This effort, however, has been met…
In recent years, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted wide attention due to their excellent optoelectronic properties in the application of optoelectronic devices. In the manufacturing process of perovskite solar cells,…
Since perovskite solar cells have attracted a lot of attentions over the past years, the enhancement of their optical absorption and current density are among the basic coming challenges. For this reason, first, we have studied structural…
Halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials for next-generation photovoltaics, laser sources and X-ray detectors. There is intense debate as to whether some photoactive halide perovskites exhibit ferroelectric behaviour and…
Owing to their high energy-conversion efficiency and inexpensive fabrication routes, solar cells based on metal-organic halide perovskites have rapidly gained prominence as a disruptive technology. An attractive feature of perovskite…
Herein, we report on the synthesis and investigation of two triazino-isoquinoline tetrafluoroborate electrolytes as hole-blocking layers in methylammonium triiodide perovskite photovoltaic devices with fullerene electron extraction layer.…
The basic processes of perovskite radiation resistance are discussed for photo- and high-energy electron irradiation. It is shown that ionization of iodine ions and a staged mechanism of elastic scattering (upon intermediate scattering on…
We demonstrate an all solid state semiconductor device, based on epitaxial single crystalline metal halide perovskites, enabling reversible control of a perovskite photoluminescence with a gate voltage. Fundamentally distinct from…
We demonstrate four and two-terminal perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells with ideally matched bandgaps. We develop an infrared absorbing 1.2eV bandgap perovskite, $FA_{0.75}Cs_{0.25}Sn_{0.5}Pb_{0.5}I_3$, that can deliver 14.8 %…
The widespread use of lead-based materials in tandem solar cells raises critical environmental and health concerns due to their inherent toxicity and risk of contamination. To address this challenge, we focused on lead-free tandem…
By performing first-principles calculations on four capacitor structures based on BaTiO3 and PbTiO3, we determine the intrinsic interfacial effects that are responsible for the destabilization of the polar state in thin-film ferroelectric…