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Effect of Interfacial Energetics on Charge Transfer from Lead Halide Perovskite to Organic Hole Conductors

Westbrook, RJE; Sanchez-Molina, I; Marin-Beloqui, JM; Bronstein, H; Haque, SA; (2018) Effect of Interfacial Energetics on Charge Transfer from Lead Halide Perovskite to Organic Hole Conductors. Journal Of Physical Chemistry C , 122 (2) pp. 1326-1332. 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09178. Green open access

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Abstract

The control and optimization of interfacial charge transfer processes is crucial to the design of efficient perovskite solar cells. Herein, we measure the yield and kinetics of hole transfer across the methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite|polymeric hole transport material heterojunction, as a function of the interfacial energy offset, ΔE, between the highest occupied molecular orbital of the hole transport material and the valence band edge of the perovskite. A combination of steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence, along with transient absorption spectroscopy, revealed that only a small driving energy (ΔE ∼ 0.07 eV) is required to induce highly efficient hole transfer. The findings of this paper suggest that further improvements in the open-circuit voltage, and so the power conversion efficiency, of perovskite solar cells could be achieved by incorporating hole transport materials that provide an interfacial energy offset in the range 0 < ΔE < 0.18 eV.

Type: Article
Title: Effect of Interfacial Energetics on Charge Transfer from Lead Halide Perovskite to Organic Hole Conductors
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09178
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09178
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074155
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