Spectroscopic Probing of 2D Pb-free Perovskite/GaN Interface

Ewelina Zdanowicz^a, Łukasz Przypis^b, Wiktor Żuraw^b, Henryk Turski^c, Czesław Skierbiszewski^c, Robert Kudrawiec^a, Artur P. Herman^a

^aDepartment of Semiconductor Materials Engineering, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

^bSaule Research Institute, Duńska 11, 54-427, Wrocław, Poland

^cInstitute of High-Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sokołowska 29/37, 01-142 Warszawa, Poland

Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS23 & Sustainable Technology Forum València (STECH23) (MATSUS23)

#PhotoPero23 - Photophysics of halide perovskites and related materials – from bulk to nano

VALÈNCIA, Spain, 2023 March 6th - 10th

Organizers: Sascha Feldmann, Maksym Kovalenko and Jovana Milic

Poster, Ewelina Zdanowicz, 340
Publication date: 22nd December 2022

The development of environmentally benign metal halide perovskite materials became an urgent issue as solar cells based on Pb-containing hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites reached the power conversion efficiency comparable to conventional inorganic semiconductors, thus facing the full-scale commercialization. The search of less toxic metals to replace Pb brought researchers to Sn, resulting in reports on tin-halide perovskites as CH₃NH₃SnI₃ (MASnI₃) or HC(NH₂)₂SnI₃ (FASnI₃) promising candidates for sustainable photovoltaics of tomorrow [1,2]. Nevertheless, the easy oxidation of Sn(II)to Sn(IV)became a shortcoming significantly affecting the performance of devices. The promising opportunity to overcome this obstacle appeared with layered perovskites, in which large organic cations are inserted between 3D inorganic layers forming materials with improved temperature and humidity stabilities [3].

In this work we investigate a new, in-house synthesized 2D tin halide perovskite deposited on GaN substrate. By means of contactless electroreflectance spectroscopy we probed the perovskite/GaN interface in order to assess the charge carrier transfer across it. Thanks to adopted methodology involving unique GaN substrates architecture we were able to non – invasively probe the influence of perovskite on GaN surface states. This brought us to conclusions allowing to trace the relative band alignment of investigated 2D Pb-free perovskite comparing to GaN.

References:

[1] Meng, X.; Lin, J.; Liu, X.; He, X.; Wang, Y.; Noda, T.; Wu, T.; Yang, X.; Han, L. Highly Stable and Efficient FASnI 3 ‐Based Perovskite Solar Cells by Introducing Hydrogen Bonding. Adv. Mater. 2019, 31 (42), 1903721.

[2] Ji, L.; Zhang, T.; Wang, Y.; Liu, D.; Chen, H.; Zheng, H.; Peng, X.; Yuan, S.; Chen, Z. D.; Li, S. Regulating Crystallization Dynamics and Crystal Orientation of Methylammonium Tin Iodide Enables High-Efficiency Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells. Nanoscale 2022, 14 (4), 1219–1225.

[3] Mao, L.; Stoumpos, C. C.; Kanatzidis, M. G. Two-Dimensional Hybrid Halide Perovskites: Principles and Promises. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (3), 1171–1190.

Acknowledgements:

This work was supported by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland through PRELUDIUM grant no. 2022/45/N/ST3/03465 and through OPUS grant no. 2019/33/B/ST3/03021.

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