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The long carrier lifetime and defect tolerance in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are major contributors to the superb performance of MHP optoelectronic devices. Large polarons were reported to be responsible for the long carrier lifetime.…
Photogenerated carrier transport and recombination in metal halide perovskites are critical to device performance. Despite considerable efforts, sample quality issues and measurement techniques have limited the access to their intrinsic…
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Entirely inorganic perovskites have attracted enormous attention of late owing to their outstanding applications in optoelectronics including highly stable perovskite solar cells. In-depth understanding of the optoelectronic and transport…
Despite soaring performance of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials in recent years, the mechanism of their decomposition at actual operation condition has been elusive. Herein, we elucidated the decrystallization process of…
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In recent years, metal halide perovskites have generated tremendous interest for optoelectronic applications and their underlying fundamental properties. Due to the large electron-phonon coupling characteristic of soft lattices,…
We present a minimal model of charge transport in hybrid perovskites, which provides an intuitive explanation for the recently proposed formation of ferroelectric large polarons. We demonstrate that short-ranged charge--rotor interactions…
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…
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The hybrid halide perovskite CH$_{3}$NH$_{3}$PbI$_{3}$ has enabled solar cells to reach an efficiency of about 18\%, demonstrating a pace for improvements with no precedents in the solar energy arena. Despite such explosive progress, the…
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