Westbrook, RJE; Macdonald, TJ; Xu, W; Lanzetta, L; Marin-Beloqui, JM; Clarke, TM; Haque, SA; (2021) Lewis Base Passivation Mediates Charge Transfer at Perovskite Heterojunctions. Journal of the American Chemical Society , 143 (31) pp. 12230-12243. 10.1021/jacs.1c05122.

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Abstract

Understanding interfacial charge transfer processes such as trap-mediated recombination and injection into charge transport layers (CTLs) is crucial for the improvement of perovskite solar cells. Herein, we reveal that the chemical binding of charge transport layers to CH3NH3PbI3 defect sites is an integral part of the interfacial charge injection mechanism in both n-i-p and p-i-n architectures. Specifically, we use a mixture of optical and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to show that binding interactions occur via Lewis base interactions between electron-donating moieties on hole transport layers and the CH3NH3PbI3 surface. We then correlate the extent of binding with an improvement in the yield and longer lifetime of injected holes with transient absorption spectroscopy. Our results show that passivation-mediated charge transfer has been occurring undetected in some of the most common perovskite configurations and elucidate a key design rule for the chemical structure of next-generation CTLs.

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