Proceedings of International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV16)
Publication date: 28th March 2016
Organic-inorganic solar cells based on lead halide perovskites are drawing growing interest recently due to their high efficiency, low fabrication cost, and exhibit favourable optical and electronic properties such as strong optical absorption in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum. These properties are also highly desirable for many other optoelectronic applications, where organic-inorganic perovskites could once more lead to a step change in feasibility or performance. However, little in depth knowledge exists to date on what governs the behaviour of the emissive species in these materials. Recently, organometal halide perovskite have also shown promising applications as light-emitting materials due to the high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield and transport of both electrons and holes. Charge recombination was proposed as the main mechanism for PL emission. PL provides important information about the excited state and charge dynamics that have also been investigated by transient absorption spectroscopy time-resolved terahertz, and microwave conductivity. In this work two perovskites systems has been studied, namely methylammonium lead bromide (MAPbBr3) and the mixed halide obtained by partial substitution with chlorine (CH3NH3PbI3-xClx) with various halide combinations studied via fluorescence microscopy (FM) coupled with an optical fibre spectrometer. This provides information on the local photoluminescence (PL) and allows us to map the surface of the films.