Large Grained Perovskite Solar Cells Derived from Single-Crystal Perovskite Powders with Enhanced Ambient Stability

Hung-Ju Yen; Po-Wei Liang; Chu-Chen Chueh; Zhibin Yang; Alex K-Y Jen; Hsing-Lin Wang

doi:10.1021/acsami.6b02169

Large Grained Perovskite Solar Cells Derived from Single-Crystal Perovskite Powders with Enhanced Ambient Stability

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Jun 15;8(23):14513-20. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b02169. Epub 2016 Jun 3.

Authors

Hung-Ju Yen¹, Po-Wei Liang², Chu-Chen Chueh², Zhibin Yang², Alex K-Y Jen^{2

3}, Hsing-Lin Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (C-PCS), Chemistry Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory , Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States.
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.
³ Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.

PMID: 27224963
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02169

Abstract

In this study, we demonstrate the large grained perovskite solar cells prepared from precursor solution comprising single-crystal perovskite powders for the first time. The resultant large grained perovskite thin film possesses a negligible physical (structural) gap between each large grain and is highly crystalline as evidenced by its fan-shaped birefringence observed under polarized light, which is very different from the thin film prepared from the typical precursor route (MAI + PbI2).

Keywords: ambient stability; large grain; perovskite; single crystal; solar cell.