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When photoluminescence, electroluminescence, and open-circuit voltage diverge - light soaking and halide segregation in perovskite solar cells

Ebadi, Firouzeh
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Yang, Bowen  
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Kim, YeonJu  
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June 4, 2021
Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Perovskite solar cells suffer from various instabilities on all time scales. Some of them are driven by light, in particular when employing compounds with mixed halides. Such light soaking effects have been observed to result in performance changes of solar-cell devices. They have also been spectroscopically investigated in detail on films, where the formation of a low-gap iodine-rich phase, seen as a red shift of the PL, has been found to be responsible for a reduced open-circuit voltage. However, studies synchronously examining device performance and its relation to spectroscopy data are scarce. Here, we perform an in operando study, where we investigate the changes of open-circuit voltage (V-oc) and photocurrent during light soaking and complement them with photo- (PL) and electro-luminescence (EL) data on devices, which allow analysis of the V-oc-limiting processes using optical and optoelectronic reciprocity relations. We find that changes in the V-oc for stable single halide compositions are quantitatively correlated with changes in the PL intensity, showing that the V-oc follows changes in the quasi-Fermi level splitting. In contrast, changes in V-oc for the mixed halide composition are not correlated with the emergence of the low-gap phase, confirming that this phase is not the sole culprit for a low and unstable V-oc. Instead, non-radiative voltage losses influenced by mobile ions are dominant in devices containing compositions with high Br content. Interestingly, the low-gap phase contributes less to photocurrent, as seen by a wavelength-dependent PL quenching at short circuit. This observation might be explained by the formation of emissive but partially insulated iodine-rich regions in the film. Such an effect is also possible for single halide systems, when the perovskite composition is not stable, seen in an increase of PL at short circuit during light soaking. This indicates that ion migration in general causes photovoltaically inactive regions, without enhancing non-radiative recombination, an effect that might need to be considered in the analysis of PL quantum yields. EL measurements confirm that Rau's reciprocity relation between the external EL quantum efficiency and V-oc cannot readily be applied to absorbers with such different phases.

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DOI
10.1039/d1ta02878b
Web of Science ID

WOS:000659211800001

Author(s)
Ebadi, Firouzeh
Yang, Bowen  
Kim, YeonJu  
Mohammadpour, Raheleh
Taghavinia, Nima
Hagfeldt, Anders  
Tress, Wolfgang  
Date Issued

2021-06-04

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

Published in
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Volume

9

Issue

24

Start page

13967

End page

13978

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Energy & Fuels

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Materials Science

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induced phase segregation

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hole-transport layers

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hybrid perovskites

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impact

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stability

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efficient

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bromide

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iodide

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degradation

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performance

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