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Understanding and controlling the energy level alignment at interfaces between lead halide perovskites and electron transport layers is crucial for optimizing charge extraction by minimizing recombination losses in high-efficiency…
Methylammonium lead halide perovskites have been developed as highly promising materials to fabricate efficient solar cells in the past few years. The real impact to energy applications relies on the understanding and controlling of the…
Accurate optical constants are essential for modelling light propagation, absorption, and ultimately photovoltaic performance in state of the art perovskite solar cells and is especially important for multiple junction or tandem cells.…
Ion transport properties in metal-halide perovskite still constitute a subject of intense research because of the evident connection between mobile defects and device performance and operation degradation. In the specific case of X-ray…
Potassium niobate (KNbO3) is a prototypical perovskite ferroelectric with large electro-optic and nonlinear optical responses, high optical damage thresholds and a rich sequence of temperature-driven phase transformations, making it a…
Electric fields arising from the distribution of charge in metal halide perovskite solar cells are critical for understanding the many weird and wonderful optoelectronic properties displayed by these devices. Mobile ionic defects are…
A method for improving the efficiency of solar cells is combining a low-bandgap semiconductor with a singlet fission material (which converts one high energy singlet into two low energy triplets following photoexcitation). Here we present a…
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have experienced a remarkable rise in power conversion efficiency (PCE) over the past 15 years, positioning them as a promising alternative or complement to silicon for large-scale photovoltaic deployment.…
We explore the degradation behaviour under continuous illumination and direct oxygen exposure of inverted unencapsulated formamidinium(FA)0.83Cs0.17Pb(I0.8Br0.2)3, CH3NH3PbI3, and CH3NH3PbI3-xClx perovskite solar cells. We continuously test…
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…
Perovskite solar cells with record power conversion efficiency are fabricated by alloying both hybrid and fully inorganic compounds. While the basic electronic properties of the hybrid perovskites are now well understood, key electronic…
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites, such as methyl-ammonium lead tri-iodide (MAPbI$_3$), are interesting candidates for efficient absorber materials in next-generation solar cells, partly due to an unusual combination of low exciton…
Perovskite-based solar cells are promising due to their rapidly improving efficiencies, but suffer from instability issues. Recently it has been claimed that one of the key contributors to the instability of perovskite solar cells is ion…
Atomic dynamics takes a fundamental part in numbers of physical properties of solids like high-Tc superconductivity, semiconducting transports, and thermoelectricity. Perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 exhibits outstanding photovoltaic performances, but…
The hybrid halide perovskite CH$_3$NH$_3$PbI$_3$ is easy to manufacture and inexpensive. Despite these, its efficiency as a solar cell is comparable to today's efficient solar cells. For these reasons, it is attracting a lot of attention…
Using a representative translational dimer model, high throughput calculations are implemented for fast screening of a total of 74 diacenaphtho-extended heterocycle (DAH) derivatives as hole transport layer (HTL) materials in perovskite…
Structural defects, particularly grain boundaries, play a crucial role in governing charge transport and the optoelectronic properties of metal halide perovskites, thereby limiting the performance of devices. Solar cells incorporating…
Carbon-electrode-based PSC devices are stressed under 1 Sun equivalent illumination in a stability setup, and different scan-speed dependent current-voltage (J-V) curves are measured during aging. The collected data is used to estimate…
The use of stibnite (Sb2S3) as sensitizers in the solid-state sensitized solar cells received considerable research interest during the transition of the millennium. However, the use of perovskite diminished the research in the field and…
Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are nowadays one of the most studied semiconductors due to their exceptional performance as active layers in solar cells. Although MHPs are excellent solid-state semiconductors, they are also ionic compounds,…