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Spontaneous crystal coalescence enables highly efficient perovskite solar cells

Roose, Bart
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Ummadisingu, Amita  
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Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo  
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2017
Nano Energy

Perovskite solar cells have recently reached staggering efficiencies, through efforts focused on reducing grain boundaries, by enlarging the size of the crystalline domains that constitute the perovskite films. Here, we demonstrate that smaller crystallites within perovskite films spontaneously coalesce into larger ones, even when complete devices are stored in the dark at room temperature. We show that crystal coalescence greatly improves the performance of state-of-the-art perovskite solar cells. Our results reveal the dynamic nature of the morphology of perovskite films and highlight the crucial role that coalescence plays in producing highly efficient devices.

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DOI
10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.06.037
Web of Science ID

WOS:000408878200003

Author(s)
Roose, Bart
Ummadisingu, Amita  
Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo  
Saliba, Michael  
Hagfeldt, Anders  
Graetzel, Michael  
Steiner, Ullrich
Abate, Antonio  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Elsevier Science Bv

Published in
Nano Energy
Volume

39

Start page

24

End page

29

Subjects

Perovskite solar cell

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Photovoltaics

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Coalescence

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Aging

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Ion migration

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Hysteresis

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REVIEWED

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October 9, 2017
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