Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Strain-activated light-induced halide segregation in mixed-halide perovskite solids

  • Yicheng Zhao,
  • Peng Miao,
  • Jack Elia,
  • Huiying Hu,
  • Xiaoxia Wang,
  • Thomas Heumueller,
  • Yi Hou,
  • Gebhard J. Matt,
  • Andres Osvet,
  • Yu-Ting Chen,
  • Mariona Tarragó,
  • Dominique de Ligny,
  • Thomas Przybilla,
  • Peter Denninger,
  • Johannes Will,
  • Jiyun Zhang,
  • Xiaofeng Tang,
  • Ning Li,
  • Chenglin He,
  • Anlian Pan,
  • Alfred J. Meixner,
  • Erdmann Spiecker,
  • Dai Zhang,
  • Christoph J. Brabec

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20066-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Mixed-halide perovskites are of interest for photovoltaic devices, but light-induced halide segregation obstructs bandgap tuning and is not fully understood. Here the authors study the effects of strain and iodide/bromide ratio on light-induced halide segregation in mixed-halide perovskites.