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Title: Discerning the Surface and Bulk Recombination Kinetics of Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Single Crystals
Authors: Wu, Bo
Nguyen, Huy Tiep
Ku, Zhiliang
Han, Guifang
Giovanni, David
Mathews, Nripan
Fan, Hong Jin
Sum, Tze Chien
Keywords: bulk photophysics
charge kinetics
Issue Date: 2016
Source: Wu, B., Nguyen, H. T., Ku, Z., Han, G., Giovanni, D., Mathews, N., et al. (2016). Discerning the Surface and Bulk Recombination Kinetics of Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Single Crystals. Advanced Energy Materials, 6(14), 1600551-.
Series/Report no.: Advanced Energy Materials
Abstract: Organic–inorganic halide perovskite single crystals possess many outstanding properties conducive for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications. However, a clear photophysics picture is still elusive, particularly, their surface and bulk photophysics are inexorably convoluted by the spectral absorbance, defects, coexisting photoexcited species, etc. In this work, an all-optical study is presented that clearly distinguishes the surface kinetics from those of the bulk in the representative methylammonium-lead bromide (MAPbBr3) and -lead iodide (MAPbI3) single crystals. It is found that the bulk recombination lifetime of the MAPbBr3 single crystal is shortened significantly by approximately one to two orders (i.e., from ≈34 to ≈1 ns) at the surface with a surface recombination velocity of around 6.7 × 103 cm s−1. The surface trap density is estimated to be around 6.0 × 1017 cm−3, which is two orders larger than that of the bulk (5.8 × 1015 cm−3). Correspondingly, the diffusion length of the surface excited species is ≈130–160 nm, which is considerably reduced compared to the bulk value of ≈2.6–4.3 μm. Furthermore, the surface region has a wider bandgap that possibly arises from the strong lattice deformation. The findings provide new insights into the intrinsic photophysics essential for single crystal perovskite photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83466
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42582
ISSN: 1614-6832
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201600551
Schools: School of Materials Science & Engineering 
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 
Research Centres: Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) 
Rights: © 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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