High charge carrier mobilities and lifetimes in organolead trihalide perovskites

Adv Mater. 2014 Mar 12;26(10):1584-9. doi: 10.1002/adma.201305172.

Abstract

Organolead trihalide perovskites are shown to exhibit the best of both worlds: charge-carrier mobilities around 10 cm2 V−1 s−1 and low bi-molecular charge-recombination constants. The ratio of the two is found to defy the Langevin limit of kinetic charge capture by over four orders of magnitude. This mechanism causes long (micrometer) charge-pair diffusion lengths crucial for flat-heterojunction photovoltaics.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't