A three-dimensional quantum dot network stabilizes perovskite solids via hydrostatic strain

Yuan Liu; Tong Zhu; Luke Grater; Hao Chen; Roberto dos Reis; Aidan Maxwell; Matthew Cheng; Yitong Dong; Sam Teale; Adam F.G. Leontowich; Chang Yong Kim; Phoebe Tsz shan Chan; Mingcong Wang; Watcharaphol Paritmongkol; Yajun Gao; So Min Park; Jian Xu; Jafar Iqbal Khan; Frédéric Laquai; Gilbert C. Walker; Vinayak P. Dravid; Bin Chen; Edward H. Sargent

doi:10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.015

A three-dimensional quantum dot network stabilizes perovskite solids via hydrostatic strain

Yuan Liu, Tong Zhu, Luke Grater, Hao Chen, Roberto dos Reis, Aidan Maxwell, Matthew Cheng, Yitong Dong, Sam Teale, Adam F.G. Leontowich, Chang Yong Kim, Phoebe Tsz shan Chan, Mingcong Wang, Watcharaphol Paritmongkol, Yajun Gao, So Min Park, Jian Xu, Jafar Iqbal Khan, Frédéric Laquai, Gilbert C. WalkerVinayak P. Dravid, Bin Chen^*, Edward H. Sargent^*

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Abstract

Compressive strain engineering improves perovskite stability. Two-dimensional compressive strain along the in-plane direction can be applied to perovskites through the substrate; however, this in-plane strain results in an offsetting tensile strain perpendicular to the substrate, linked to the positive Poisson ratio of perovskites. Substrate-induced strain engineering has not yet resulted in state-of-the-art operational stability. Here, we seek instead to implement hydrostatic strain in perovskites by embedding lattice-mismatched perovskite quantum dots (QDs) into a perovskite matrix. QD-in-matrix perovskites show a homogeneously strained lattice as evidenced by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction. We fabricate mixed-halide wide-band-gap (E_g; 1.77 eV) QD-in-matrix perovskite solar cells that maintain >90% of their initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) after 200 h of one-sun operation at the maximum power point (MPP), a significant improvement relative to matrix-only devices, which lose 10% (relative) of their initial PCE after 5 h of MPP tracking.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	107-122
Number of pages	16
Journal	Matter
Volume	7
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.015
State	Published - Jan 3 2024

Funding

This research was made possible by the US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research Grants ( NO0014-20-1-2572 and N00014-20-1-2725 ). GIWAXS patterns were collected at the BXDS-WLE Beamline at CLS with the assistance of C.-Y. Kim and A. Leontowich. This work made use of the Jerome B. Cohen X-Ray Diffraction Facility supported by the MRSEC program of the National Science Foundation ( DMR-2308691 ) at the Materials Research Center of Northwestern University and the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource ( NSF ECCS-1542205 .). This work made use of the EPIC facility of Northwestern University’s NUANCE Center , which has received support from the SHyNE Resource ( NSF ECCS-2025633 ), the IIN , and Northwestern's MRSEC program ( NSF DMR-1720139 ). Confocal microscopy was performed at the Advanced Optical Microscopy Facility, University Health Network . This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under award nos. OSR-CRG2018-3737 and OSR-CARF/CCF-3079 .

Keywords

Hydrostatic strain
MAP 2: Benchmark
Mixed-halide perovskites
Photovoltaics
Quantum dot-in-matrix
Strain engineering

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General Materials Science

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Liu, Y., Zhu, T., Grater, L., Chen, H., dos Reis, R., Maxwell, A., Cheng, M., Dong, Y., Teale, S., Leontowich, A. F. G., Kim, C. Y., Chan, P. T. S., Wang, M., Paritmongkol, W., Gao, Y., Park, S. M., Xu, J., Khan, J. I., Laquai, F., ... Sargent, E. H. (2024). A three-dimensional quantum dot network stabilizes perovskite solids via hydrostatic strain. Matter, 7(1), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.015

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