Abstract
Compressive strain engineering improves perovskite stability. Two-dimensional compressive strain along the in-plane direction can be applied to perovskites through the substrate; however, this in-plane strain results in an offsetting tensile strain perpendicular to the substrate, linked to the positive Poisson ratio of perovskites. Substrate-induced strain engineering has not yet resulted in state-of-the-art operational stability. Here, we seek instead to implement hydrostatic strain in perovskites by embedding lattice-mismatched perovskite quantum dots (QDs) into a perovskite matrix. QD-in-matrix perovskites show a homogeneously strained lattice as evidenced by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction. We fabricate mixed-halide wide-band-gap (Eg; 1.77 eV) QD-in-matrix perovskite solar cells that maintain >90% of their initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) after 200 h of one-sun operation at the maximum power point (MPP), a significant improvement relative to matrix-only devices, which lose 10% (relative) of their initial PCE after 5 h of MPP tracking.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 107-122 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Matter |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 3 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Hydrostatic strain
- MAP 2: Benchmark
- Mixed-halide perovskites
- Photovoltaics
- Quantum dot-in-matrix
- Strain engineering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Materials Science