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Low Pressure Vapor-assisted Solution Process for Tunable Band Gap Pinhole-free Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Films
Published on: September 8, 2017
Why lead methylammonium tri-iodide perovskite-based solar cells require a mesoporous electron transporting scaffold
Eran Edri1, Saar Kirmayer, Alex Henning
1Department of Materials and Interfaces, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science , 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
Abstract:
CH3NH3PbI3-based solar cells were characterized with electron beam-induced current (EBIC) and compared to CH3NH3PbI(3-x)Clx ones. A spatial map of charge separation efficiency in working cells shows p-i-n structures for both thin film cells. Effective diffusion lengths, LD, (from EBIC profile) show that holes are extracted significantly more efficiently than electrons in CH3NH3PbI3, explaining why CH3NH3PbI3-based cells require mesoporous electron conductors, while CH3NH3PbI(3-Clx ones, where LD values are comparable for both charge types, do not.

