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Dr Robert Hoye, FIMMM CEng CSci

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Materials

Honorary Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6048r.hoye Website

 
 
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Location

 

2.27Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Li:2022,
author = {Li, Z and Huang, Y-T and Mohan, L and Zelewski, S and Friend, R and Briscoe, J and Hoye, R},
journal = {Solar RRL},
pages = {1--9},
title = {Elucidating the factors limiting the photovoltaic performance of mixed Sb-Bi halide elpasolite absorbers},
url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/solr.202200749},
volume = {6},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Although Cs2AgBiBr6 halide elpasolites have gained substantial attention as potential nontoxic and stable alternatives to lead-halide perovskites, they are limited by their wide bandgaps >2.2 eV. Alloying with Sb into the pnictogen site has been shown to be an effective method to lower the bandgap, but this has not translated into improvements in photovoltaic (PV) performance. In this work, the underlying causes are investigated. Pinhole-free films of Cs2Ag(SbxBi1-x)Br6 are achieved through antisolvent dripping, but PV devices still exhibit a reduction in power conversion efficiency (PCE) from 0.44±0.02% (without Sb) to 0.073±0.007% (90% Sb; lowest bandgap). There is a 0.7 V reduction in the open-circuit voltage, which correlates with the appearance of a sub-bandgap state approximately 0.7 eV below the optical bandgap in the Sb-containing elpasolite films, as found in both absorbance and photoluminescence measurements. Through detailed Williamson-Hall analysis, it is found that adding Sb into the elpasolite films leads to an increase in film strain. This strain is relieved through aerosol-assisted solvent treatment, which reduces both the sub-bandgap state density and energetic disorder in the films, as well as reducing the fast early decay in the photogenerated carrier population due to trap filling. This work shows that Sb alloying leads to the introduction of extra sub-bandgap states that limit the PV performance, but can be mitigated through post-annealing treatment to reduce disorder and strain.
AU  - Li,Z
AU  - Huang,Y-T
AU  - Mohan,L
AU  - Zelewski,S
AU  - Friend,R
AU  - Briscoe,J
AU  - Hoye,R
EP  - 9
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2367-198X
SP  - 1
TI  - Elucidating the factors limiting the photovoltaic performance of mixed Sb-Bi halide elpasolite absorbers
T2  - Solar RRL
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/solr.202200749
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/99594
VL  - 6
ER  -
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