Beyond protocols: Understanding the electrical behavior of perovskite solar cells by impedance spectroscopy

E Ghahremanirad, O Almora, S Suresh… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Impedance spectroscopy (IS) is an effective characterization technique used to probe and
distinguish charge dynamics occurring at different timescales in optoelectronic and electric …

Understanding equivalent circuits in perovskite solar cells. Insights from drift-diffusion simulation

AJ Riquelme, K Valadez-Villalobos, PP Boix… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have reached impressively high efficiencies in a short period
of time; however, the optoelectronic properties of halide perovskites are surprisingly …

How transport layer properties affect perovskite solar cell performance: insights from a coupled charge transport/ion migration model

NE Courtier, JM Cave, JM Foster, AB Walker… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The effects of transport layers on perovskite solar cell performance, in particular anomalous
hysteresis, are investigated. A model for coupled ion vacancy motion and charge transport is …

Consistent device simulation model describing perovskite solar cells in steady-state, transient, and frequency domain

MT Neukom, A Schiller, S Züfle, E Knapp… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A variety of experiments on vacuum-deposited methylammonium lead iodide perovskite
solar cells are presented, including JV curves with different scan rates, light intensity …

Interpreting ideality factors for planar perovskite solar cells: Ectypal diode theory for steady-state operation

NE Courtier - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Ideality factors are used to identify the dominant form of recombination in many types of solar
cells and guide future development. Unusual noninteger and voltage-dependent ideality …

Identification of recombination losses and charge collection efficiency in a perovskite solar cell by comparing impedance response to a drift-diffusion model

A Riquelme, LJ Bennett, NE Courtier, MJ Wolf… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Interpreting the impedance response of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is significantly more
challenging than for most other photovoltaics. This is for a variety of reasons, of which the …

Transient photovoltage in perovskite solar cells: Interaction of trap-mediated recombination and migration of multiple ionic species

D Walter, A Fell, Y Wu, T Duong… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
It is highly probable that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are mixed electronic-ionic conductors,
with ion migration being the driving force for PSC hysteresis. However, there is much that is …

Inverted Hysteresis in n–i–p and p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells

R García-Rodríguez, AJ Riquelme, M Cowley… - Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A combination of experimental studies and drift‐diffusion modeling has been used to
investigate the appearance of inverted hysteresis, where the area under the J–V curve for …

Modeling thin film solar cells: from organic to perovskite

D Li, L Song, Y Chen, W Huang - Advanced Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Device model simulation is one of the primary tools for modeling thin film solar cells from
organic materials to organic–inorganic perovskite materials. By directly connecting the …

Ionmonger: a free and fast planar perovskite solar cell simulator with coupled ion vacancy and charge carrier dynamics

NE Courtier, JM Cave, AB Walker… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Details of an open-source planar perovskite solar cell simulator, which includes ion vacancy
migration within the perovskite layer coupled to charge carrier transport throughout the …