Nature Communications (Jul 2019)
Atomic-level passivation mechanism of ammonium salts enabling highly efficient perovskite solar cells
- Essa A. Alharbi,
- Ahmed Y. Alyamani,
- Dominik J. Kubicki,
- Alexander R. Uhl,
- Brennan J. Walder,
- Anwar Q. Alanazi,
- Jingshan Luo,
- Andrés Burgos-Caminal,
- Abdulrahman Albadri,
- Hamad Albrithen,
- Mohammad Hayal Alotaibi,
- Jacques-E. Moser,
- Shaik M. Zakeeruddin,
- Fabrizio Giordano,
- Lyndon Emsley,
- Michael Grätzel
Affiliations
- Essa A. Alharbi
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Ahmed Y. Alyamani
- National Center for Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Dominik J. Kubicki
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Alexander R. Uhl
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Brennan J. Walder
- Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Anwar Q. Alanazi
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Jingshan Luo
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Andrés Burgos-Caminal
- Photochemical Dynamics Group, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Abdulrahman Albadri
- National Center for Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Hamad Albrithen
- National Center for Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Mohammad Hayal Alotaibi
- National Center for Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- Jacques-E. Moser
- Photochemical Dynamics Group, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Shaik M. Zakeeruddin
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Fabrizio Giordano
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Lyndon Emsley
- Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- Michael Grätzel
- Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10985-5
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Various approaches have been developed to push higher the efficiency of halide perovskite solar cells. Here Alharbi et al. show that ammonium salts treatment can reduce the defect density at the perovskite surface and understand the passivation mechanism with 2D-solid state NMR.
