Carrier Extraction from Perovskite to Polymeric Charge Transport Layers Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.
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Ugur, Esma
Khan, Jafar Iqbal

Aydin, Erkan

Wang, Mingcong

Kirkus, Mindaugas

Neophytou, Marios

McCulloch, Iain

De Wolf, Stefaan

Laquai, Frédéric

KAUST Department
Chemical Science ProgramKAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2019-10-22Embargo End Date
2020-10-22Permanent link to this record
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The efficiency of state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells is limited by carrier recombination at defects and interfaces. Thus, understanding these losses and how to reduce them is the way forward toward the Shockley-Queisser limit. Here, we demonstrate that ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy can directly probe hole extraction and recombination dynamics at perovskite/hole transport layer (HTL) interfaces. To illustrate this, we employed PDPP-3T as HTL because its ground-state absorption is at lower energy than the perovskite's photobleach, enabling direct monitoring of interfacial hole extraction and recombination. Moreover, by fitting the carrier dynamics using a diffusion model, we determined the carrier mobility. Afterwards, by varying the perovskite thickness, we distinguished between carrier diffusion and carrier extraction at the interface. Lastly, we prepared device-like structures, TiO2/perovskite/PDPP-3T stacks, and observed reduced carrier recombination in the perovskite. From PDPP-3T carrier dynamics, we deduced that hole extraction is one order faster than recombination of holes at the interface.Citation
Ugur, E., Khan, J. I., Aydin, E., Wang, M., Kirkus, M., Neophytou, M., … Laquai, F. (2019). Carrier Extraction from Perovskite to Polymeric Charge Transport Layers Probed by Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6921–6928. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02502Sponsors
This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No: OSR2018-CARF/CCF-3079.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Additional Links
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10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02502