Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Light- and bias-induced structural variations in metal halide perovskites

  • Dohyung Kim,
  • Jae Sung Yun,
  • Pankaj Sharma,
  • Da Seul Lee,
  • Jincheol Kim,
  • Arman M. Soufiani,
  • Shujuan Huang,
  • Martin A. Green,
  • Anita W. Y. Ho-Baillie,
  • Jan Seidel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08364-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Organic–inorganic metal halide perovskite solar cells have been under the spotlight but what happens in the working solar cell device at the nanoscale remains elusive. Here Kim et al. show that light and voltage bias can induce strain and structural variation which may cause J–V scan hysteresis.