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Though the common metal electrode-based perovskite solar cells have achieved a power conversion efficiency of >25%, they also play a crucial role in accelerating the degradation of the cells. In this study, we investigated phase transition…
Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites for photovoltaics have attracted research interest due to their unique material properties, but suffered from poor material stability. In this work, we investigated the surface phase diagrams of…
Perovskite/Si tandem solar cells have the potential to considerably out-perform conventional solar cells. Under standard test conditions, perovskite/Si tandem solar cells already outperform the Si single junction. Under realistic…
Metal halide perovskites have recently emerged as promising materials for the next generation of optoelectronic devices owing to their remarkable intrinsic properties. In the growth of perovskite crystals, the substrates are essential and…
The stability of organic solar cells is strongly affected by the morphology of the photoactive layers, whose separated crystalline and/or amorphous phases are kinetically quenched far from their thermodynamic equilibrium during the…
In this work, perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with different transport layers were fabricated to understand the hysteresis phenomenon under a series of scan rates. The experimental results show that the hysteresis phenomenon would be affected…
Hybrid metal-organic perovskite solar cells have astounded the solar cell community with their rapid rise in efficiency over the past three years. Despite this success, the basic processes governing the photogeneration of free charges,…
Interpreting the impedance response of perovskite solar cells (PSC) is significantly more challenging than for most other photovoltaics. This is for a variety of reasons, of which the most significant are the mixed ionic-electronic…
Halide perovskites are highly promising light-harvesting materials with strong ionic character, enabling in principle the combination of a solar cell and a Li-ion battery in one integrated photo-battery device. Here, we investigate Li ions…
With hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites increasing its technological reach, from photovoltaics solar cells to light-emitting devices, to nanoscale transistors, it is critical to establish the role of microstructures in dictating how…
Metal halide perovskites are of great interest for application in semitransparent solar cells due to their tunable bandgap and high performance. However, fabricating high-efficiency perovskite semitransparent devices with high average…
Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) have garnered global research interest owing to their superior photovoltaic (PV) performance. The future of photovoltaic technology lies in PSCs since they can produce power with performance on par with the…
Hybrid Lead halide perovskites, despite having unique intrinsic properties with the possibility of flexible synthesis and device fabrication, still suffer from two fundamental issues, i.e. stability in external environment and toxicity due…
Halide segregation in metal halide perovskites limits their bandgap tunability and hinders their adoption in tandem solar cells and light emitting diodes. Here, we reveal the thermodynamic driving force behind halide segregation in mixed…
The structure and growth of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) region between an electrolyte and an electrode is one of the most fundamental, yet less-well understood phenomena in solid-state batteries. We present a parameter-free…
Design and modification of the interfaces, always a critical issue for semiconductor devices, has become the primary tool to harness the full potential of halide perovskite (HaP)-based ones. In particular the outstanding improvements in HaP…
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are the fastest-growing photovoltaic (PV) technology in the solar cell community and have reached an efficiency close to that of commercial silicon (Si) solar cells. The organic-inorganic halide perovskite…
The incorporation of even small amounts of strontium (Sr) into lead-based quadruple cation hybrid perovskite solar cells results in a systematic increase of the open circuit voltage (Voc) in pin-type perovskite solar cells. We demonstrate…
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…