Publication Date:
2016-03-26
Description:
Lead-halide perovskites have emerged as high-performance photovoltaic materials. We mapped the propagation of photogenerated luminescence and charges from a local photoexcitation spot in thin films of lead tri-iodide perovskites. We observed light emission at distances of 〉/=50 micrometers and found that the peak of the internal photon spectrum red-shifts from 765 to 〉/=800 nanometers. We used a lateral-contact solar cell with selective electron- and hole-collecting contacts and observed that charge extraction for photoexcitation 〉50 micrometers away from the contacts arose from repeated recycling between photons and electron-hole pairs. Thus, energy transport is not limited by diffusive charge transport but can occur over long distances through multiple absorption-diffusion-emission events. This process creates high excitation densities within the perovskite layer and allows high open-circuit voltages.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pazos-Outon, Luis M -- Szumilo, Monika -- Lamboll, Robin -- Richter, Johannes M -- Crespo-Quesada, Micaela -- Abdi-Jalebi, Mojtaba -- Beeson, Harry J -- Vrucinic, Milan -- Alsari, Mejd -- Snaith, Henry J -- Ehrler, Bruno -- Friend, Richard H -- Deschler, Felix -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2016 Mar 25;351(6280):1430-3. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf1168.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK. ; Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW Cambridge, UK. ; Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, OX1 3PU Oxford, UK. ; Center for Nanophotonics, FOM Institute AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands. ; Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE Cambridge, UK. rhf10@cam.ac.uk fd297@cam.ac.uk.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27013728" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
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Medicine
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Physics
