Contactless measurements of photocarrier transport properties in perovskite single crystals

Abstract

The remarkable properties of metal halide perovskites arising from their impressive charge carrier diffusion lengths have led to rapid advances in solution-processed optoelectronics. Unfortunately, diffusion lengths reported in perovskite single crystals have ranged widely from 3 micro m to 3mm- for ostensibly similar materials. Here we report a contactless method to measure the carrier mobility and further extract the diffusion length: our approach avoids both the effects of contact resistance and those of high electric field. We vary the density of quenchers epitaxially included within perovskite single crystals and report the dependence of excited state lifetime in the perovskite on inter-quencher spacing. Our results are repeatable and self-consistent (i.e. they agree on diffusion length for many different quencher concentrations) to within +/- 6%. Using this method, we obtain a diffusion length in metal-halide perovskites of 2.6 micro m +/- 0.1 micro m.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 2019
Accession Number
AD1105179

Entities

People

  • Andrew H. Proppe
  • Chih-shan Tan
  • Edward H. Sargent
  • Golam Bappi
  • Grant Walters
  • Makhsud I Saidaminov
  • Oleksandr Voznyy
  • Randy Sabatini
  • Shana O. Kelley
  • Xiwen Gong
  • Ziru Huang

Organizations

  • University of Toronto

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carrier Mobility
  • Charge Carriers
  • Crystal Structure
  • Crystals
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Emission
  • Fermi Levels
  • Films
  • Laser Diodes
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Quantum Dots
  • Scattering
  • Solar Cells
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy
  • Thin Films
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster