A Facile Preparative Route of Nanoscale Perovskites over Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films and Their Applications to Photosensitizers and Light Emitters

Hyo Joong Lee; Kyung Taek Cho; Sanghyun Paek; Yonghui Lee; Aron J. Huckaba; Valentin I.E. Queloz; Iwan Zimmermann; Giulia Grancini; Emad Oveisi; So Min Yoo; Seul Yi Lee; Taeho Shin; Myoung Kim; Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

doi:10.1002/adfm.201803801

A Facile Preparative Route of Nanoscale Perovskites over Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films and Their Applications to Photosensitizers and Light Emitters

Hyo Joong Lee, Kyung Taek Cho, Sanghyun Paek, Yonghui Lee, Aron J. Huckaba, Valentin I.E. Queloz, Iwan Zimmermann, Giulia Grancini, Emad Oveisi, So Min Yoo, Seul Yi Lee, Taeho Shin, Myoung Kim, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

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By two-step sequential Pb²⁺ adsorption and reaction with methylammonium-iodide (MAI) or -bromide (MABr) at a low concentration level of 0.06–0.10 m over mesoporous TiO₂ or ZrO₂ film, a well-defined nanoscale CH₃NH₃PbI₃ (MAPbI₃) photosensitizer or CH₃NH₃PbBr₃ (MAPbBr₃) light emitter could be prepared in situ, respectively in a reproducible and atom-economical way. The as-prepared nanoscale perovskites are compared with their thin film counterparts in terms of light absorption/emission, crystallinity, surface morphology, and energy-conversion efficiency. The nanoscale perovskite-decorated films display more transparency than the bulky film due to the much lower amount deposited, while blueshifted and overwhelmingly brighter photoluminescence is observed in the “nano” relative to the “bulk” due to quantum size confinement. Transmission electron microscopy images also clearly show that a few nanometer-sized perovskite dots are deposited homogeneously over the surface of TiO₂- or ZrO₂-particulate film in the course of the current preparative route. When the nano-MAPbI₃ is tested as a photosensitizer in a solid-state dye-sensitized solar cell configuration with a very thin (≈650 nm) TiO₂ mesoporous film, it has a promising initial power conversion efficiency of 6.23%, which outperformed the result of 2.28% from a typical organic molecular dye coded as MK-2.

Original language	English
Article number	1803801
Journal	Advanced Functional Materials
Volume	28
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201803801
State	Published - Sep 26 2018

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Funding Information:
H.J.L. acknowledges the financial support by the National Research Foundation (NRF-2014R1A1A2057772 and NRF-2017R1D1A1B03028570) and by research funds of Chonbuk National University in 2017. Md.K.N. thanks European Union Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 604032 of the MESO project. G.G. acknowledges the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funding through the Ambizione Energy project HYPER (grant number PZENP2_173641). The authors thank Borun New Material Technology for providing high-quality spiro-OMeTAD.

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Keywords

dye-sensitized solar cells
light emitters
nanoscale perovskites
sensitizers

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Chemistry (all)
Materials Science (all)
Electrochemistry
Biomaterials

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Lee, H. J., Cho, K. T., Paek, S., Lee, Y., Huckaba, A. J., Queloz, V. I. E., Zimmermann, I., Grancini, G., Oveisi, E., Yoo, S. M., Lee, S. Y., Shin, T., Kim, M., & Nazeeruddin, M. K. (2018). A Facile Preparative Route of Nanoscale Perovskites over Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films and Their Applications to Photosensitizers and Light Emitters. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(39), Article 1803801. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201803801

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