Using transient capacitance measurements to characterise mobile ions in perovskite solar cells
Moritz C. Schmidt a, Bruno Ehrler a
a Center for Nanophotonics, AMOLF, Science Park, 104, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MAT-SUS) (NFM22)
#STAPOS - Stability of perovskite and organic solar cells
Barcelona, Spain, 2022 October 24th - 28th
Organizers: Carsten Deibel and Qiong Wang
Contributed talk, Moritz C. Schmidt, presentation 197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nfm.2022.197
Publication date: 11th July 2022

In recent years perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted attention due to their promising electro-optical properties leading to high power conversion efficiencies of 25.7% in single-junction devices [1]. However, the stability of PSCs is still limited and thus the bottleneck on their way to commercialisation. One of the main causes of the poor stability is the presence of mobile ions in the perovskite absorber, facilitated by their soft ionic crystal structure. Interestingly, the density of mobile ions reported in literature spans multiple orders of magnitude reaching from 1015 - 1019 cm-3 [2, 3]. One technique that has been previously applied to quantify the activation energy, diffusion coefficient, and density of mobile ions is transient ion drift (TID). In TID, the modulation of the device capacitance due to redistribution of mobile ions after applying a voltage pulse is measured. However, so far, the interpretation of TID was based on an analytical model that assumed a p-doped perovskite and did only account for the drift but not for the diffusion of mobile ions [3, 4]. In this work, we provide an updated interpretation of TID, also accounting for low doping densities in the perovskite, and show what it can teach us about the activation energy, diffusion coefficient, and density of mobile ions.

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