Deterministic Nucleation for Halide Perovskite Thin Films with Large and Uniform Grains

Abstract

Halide perovskite materials have come to the forefront of optoelectronics recently owing to their excellent light absorbing and emitting properties. Despite their excellent properties there are still problems that need to be overcome such as short operating lifetimes, and an observed hysteresis behavior in their current–voltage characteristics. It is found that these challenges could be overcome by developing a deterministic nucleation process using gold as a nucleation promoter to control the grain size of the perovskite layer. It is shown that this deterministic nucleation process can be expanded across multiple perovskite systems and can be used to achieve extremely uniform and large grain sizes within the perovskite layer. These large perovskite grains exhibit enhanced stability compared to current state‐of‐the‐art nanocrystalline films, and exhibit no hysteresis in their I–V characteristics which is key if commercialization of perovskites is to be realized.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 28, 2017
Source ID
10.1002/adfm.201702180

Entities

People

  • Junqiang Li
  • Matthew Worden
  • Mingming Chen
  • Sri Ganesh R. Bade
  • Thomas Geske
  • Xin Shan
  • Zhibin Yu

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • China Scholarship Council
  • Florida State University
  • National Science Foundation

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Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.
  • Powder metallurgy of Titanium alloys.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene