Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Origin of apparent light-enhanced and negative capacitance in perovskite solar cells

  • Firouzeh Ebadi,
  • Nima Taghavinia,
  • Raheleh Mohammadpour,
  • Anders Hagfeldt,
  • Wolfgang Tress

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09079-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The apparent negative capacitance remains elusive in the impedance analysis of metal halide perovskite solar cells. Here Ebadi et al. show that it can be attributed to slow transients in the injection current instead of classical capacitive effect, i.e. charge accumulation.