Origin and elimination of photocurrent hysteresis by fullerene passivation in CH3NH3PbI3 planar heterojunction solar cells

Burschka, J. et al. Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells. Nature 499, 316–319 (2013).

Liu, M., Johnston, M. B. & Snaith, H. J. Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells by vapour deposition. Nature 501, 395–398 (2013).

Lee, M. M., Teuscher, J., Miyasaka, T., Murakami, T. N. & Snaith, H. J. Efficient hybrid solar cells based on meso-superstructured organometal halide perovskites. Science 338, 643–647 (2012).

Abrusci, A. et al. High-performance perovskite-polymer hybrid solar cells via electronic coupling with fullerene monolayers. Nano Lett. 13, 3124–3128 (2013).

Stranks, S. D. et al. Electron-hole diffusion lengths exceeding 1 micrometer in an organometal trihalide perovskite absorber. Science 342, 341–344 (2013).

Gonzalez-Pedro, V. et al. General working principles of CH3NH3PbX3 perovskite solar cells. Nano Lett. 14, 888–893 (2014).

Heo, J. H. et al. Efficient inorganic-organic hybrid heterojunction solar cells containing perovskite compound and polymeric hole conductors. Nat. Photonics 7, 486–491 (2013).

Kamat, P. V. Evolution of perovskite photovoltaics and decrease in energy payback time. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 3733–3734 (2013).

Docampo, P., Ball, J. M., Darwich, M., Eperon, G. E. & Snaith, H. J. Efficient organometal trihalide perovskite planar-heterojunction solar cells on flexible polymer substrates. Nat. Commun. 4, 2761 (2013).

Baikie, T. et al. Synthesis and crystal chemistry of the hybrid perovskite (CH3NH3)PbI3 for solid-state sensitised solar cell applications. J. Mater. Chem. A 1, 5628–5641 (2013).

Stoumpos, C. C., Malliakas, C. D. & Kanatzidis, M. G. Semiconducting tin and lead iodide perovskites with organic cations: phase transitions, high mobilities, and near-infrared photoluminescent properties. Inorg. Chem. 52, 9019–9038 (2013).

Conings, B. et al. Perovskite-based hybrid solar cells exceeding 10% efficiency with high reproducibility using a thin film sandwich approach. Adv. Mater. 26, 2041–2046 (2013).

Takahashi, Y., Hasegawa, H., Takahashi, Y. & Inabe, T. Hall mobility in tin iodide perovskite CH3NH3/SnI3: evidence for a doped semiconductor. J. Solid State Chem. 205, 39–43 (2013).

Wehrenfennig, C., Eperon, G. E., Johnston, M. B., Snaith, H. J. & Herz, L. M. High charge carrier mobilities and lifetimes in organolead trihalide perovskites. Adv. Mater. 26, 1584–1589 (2013).

Xing, G. et al. Low-temperature solution-processed wavelength-tunable perovskites for lasing. Nat. Mater. 13, 476–480 (2014).

Snaith, H. J. et al. Anomalous hysteresis in perovskite solar cells. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 1511–1515 (2014).

Xiao, Z. et al. Efficient, high yield perovskite photovoltaic devices grown by interdiffusion of solution-processed precursor stacking layers. Energy Environ. Sci. 7, 2619–2623 (2014).

Xiao, Z. et al. Solvent annealing of perovskite induced crystal growth for photovoltaic device efficiency enhancement. Adv. Mater. 26, 6503–6509 (2014).

Jeng, J. Y. et al. CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite/fullerene planar-heterojunction hybrid solar cells. Adv. Mater. 25, 3727–3732 (2013).

Malinkiewicz, O. et al. Perovskite solar cells employing organic charge-transport layers. Nat. Photonics 8, 128–132 (2014).

Wang, Q. et al. Large fill-factor bilayer iodine perovskite solar cells fabricated by a low-temperature solution-process. Energy Environ. Sci. 7, 2359–2365 (2014).

Strukov, D. B., Snider, G. S., Stewart, D. R. & Williams, R. S. The missing memristor found. Nature 453, 80–83 (2008).

Beck, A., Bednorz, J., Gerber, C., Rossel, C. & Widmer, D. Reproducible switching effect in thin oxide films for memory applications. Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 139–141 (2000).

Seo, S. et al. Reproducible resistance switching in polycrystalline NiO films. Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5655–5657 (2004).

Dualeh, A. et al. Effect of annealing temperature on film morphology of organic–inorganic hybrid pervoskite solid-state solar cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 24, 3250–3258 (2014).

Cheng, B. et al. Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Interdiffusion Grown Organolead Halide Perovskite Thin Films by Thermal Annealing. J. Mater. Chem. A 2, 18508–18514 (2014).

Walter, T., Herberholz, R., Müller, C. & Schock, H. Determination of defect distributions from admittance measurements and application to Cu (In, Ga) Se2 based heterojunctions. J. Appl. Phys. 80, 4411–4420 (1996).

Rau, U., Abou-Ras, D. & Kirchartz, T. Advanced characterization techniques for thin film solar cells John Wiley & Sons (2011).

Melzer, C., Koop, E. J., Mihailetchi, V. D. & Blom, P. W. Hole transport in poly (phenylene vinylene)/methanofullerene bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 14, 865–870 (2004).

Carr, J. A. & Chaudhary, S. The identification, characterization and mitigation of defect states in organic photovoltaic devices: a review and outlook. Energy Environ. Sci. 6, 3414–3438 (2013).

Kim, J., Lee, S.-H., Lee, J. H. & Hong, K.-H. The role of intrinsic defects in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 1312–1317 (2014).

Bisquert, J., Fabregat-Santiago, F., Mora-Seró, I. n., Garcia-Belmonte, G. & Giménez, S. Electron lifetime in dye-sensitized solar cells: theory and interpretation of measurements. J. Phys. Chem. C 113, 17278–17290 (2009).

Fabregat-Santiago, F., Garcia-Belmonte, G., Mora-Sero, I. & Bisquert, J. Characterization of nanostructured hybrid and organic solar cells by impedance spectroscopy. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13, 9083–9118 (2011).

Kim, H.-S. et al. Mechanism of carrier accumulation in perovskite thin-absorber solar cells. Nat. Commun. 4, 2242 (2013).

Dualeh, A. et al. Impedance spectroscopic analysis of lead-iodide perovskite-sensitized solid-state solar cells. ACS Nano 8, 362–373 (2014).