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Sirtl, Maximilian T.; Ebadi, Firouzeh; van Gorkom, Bas T.; Ganswindt, Patrick; Janssen, Rene A. J.; Bein, Thomas and Tress, Wolfgang (2021): The Bottlenecks of Cs2AgBiBr6 Solar Cells: How Contacts and Slow Transients Limit the Performance. In: Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 9, No. 14, 2100202

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Abstract

Cs2AgBiBr6 has attracted much interest as a potential lead-free alternative for perovskite solar cells. Although this material offers encouraging optoelectronic features, severe bottlenecks limit the performance of the resulting solar cells to a power conversion efficiency of below 3%. Here, the performance-limiting factors of this material are investigated in full solar cells featuring various architectures. It is found that the photovoltaic parameters of Cs2AgBiBr6-based solar cells strongly depend on the scan speed of the J/V measurements, suggesting a strong impact of ionic conductivity in the material. Moreover, a sign change of the photocurrent for bias voltages above 0.9 V during the measurement of the external quantum efficiency (EQE) is revealed, which can be explained by non-selective contacts. The radiative loss of the V-OC from sensitive subgap-EQE measurements is calculated and it is revealed that the loss is caused by a low external luminescence yield and therefore a high non-radiative recombination, supported by the first report of a strongly red shifted electroluminescence signal between 800 and 1000 nm. Altogether, these results point to a poor selectivity of the contacts and charge transport layers, caused by poor energy level alignment that can be overcome by optimizing the architecture of the solar cell.

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