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Monovalent Cation Doping of CH3NH3PbI3 for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells
Published on: March 19, 2017
Formation of iminium ions during the processing of metal halide perovskites
Jakob Möbs1,2, Ajna Tomori1, Johanna Heine1
1Department of Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, 35043 Marburg, Germany. johanna.heine@chemie.uni-marburg.de.
Abstract:
Ammonium ions are a key component of many organic-inorganic metal halide materials. We show that the hexagonal perovskite (Me2NH2)PbI3 is rapidly transformed to iminium-based perovskites (Me2CNMeR)PbI3 (R = Me, Et), simply by stirring the material in the respective ketone at room temperature, triggering clear changes in the materials' photophysical properties.
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