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Formation of Surface Defects Dominates Ion Migration in Lead-Halide Perovskites Daniele Meggiolaro, Edoardo Mosconi, and Filippo De Angelis ACS Energy Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00247 • Publication Date (Web): 20 Feb 2019 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on February 21, 2019
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Formation of Surface Defects Dominates Ion Migration in Lead-Halide Perovskites Daniele Meggiolaro,a,b Edoardo Mosconi,a* Filippo De Angelis a,b,c * a Computational
Laboratory for Hybrid/Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO), Istituto CNR di Scienze e
Tecnologie Molecolari (ISTM-CNR), Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy. bCompuNet, c Department
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy.
of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy.
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[email protected] Abstract We propose a new model of defect formation and ion migration at the surfaces / grain boundaries of lead-halide perovskites, based on ab initio calculations. Inspired by the spread of experimentally measured activation energies for ion migration in similar lead-iodide perovskites, we define an effective defect formation energy weighed upon surface and bulk contributions. We thus link the large variation in measured activation energies for ion migration to the different defect formation energy of polycrystalline thin films with different grains size. Defect formation is facilitated at surfaces, thus smaller grains exhibit an averagely lower activation energy to ion migration than larger grains. We also account for the increased ion migration observed under light. On overall, our findings point at surface passivation as a major issue to stabilize lead-halide perovskites against formation of defects, limiting in turn the decomposition reactions associated to defect photochemistry.
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The success of metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) in optoelectronic devices has revolutionized the landscape of applications dominated by traditional semiconductors. The outstanding absorption, charge generation and transport properties of MHPs1, 2 apparently contrasts with the paradigm of high-purity/high quality semiconductors made under controlled conditions. MHPs achieve similar performance in devices than the former but, by contrast, are fabricated by solution-processing techniques at low temperature from medium-purity precursor compounds.
The relatively weak metal-halide bond of MHPs (formation enthalpies
