Failure pathways of perovskite solar cells in space

Baoze Liu; Lixiu Zhang; Yan Jiang; Liming Ding

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/43/10/100201

J. Semicond. > 2022, Volume 43?>?Issue 10?> 100201

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Failure pathways of perovskite solar cells in space

Baoze Liu¹, Lixiu Zhang², Yan Jiang^1, and Liming Ding^2,

+ Author Affiliations

1. Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China
2. Center for Excellence in Nanoscience (CAS), Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication (CAS), National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China

Author Bio:

Baoze Liu got his BS from Central South University in 2022. Now he is a PhD student at Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Yan Jiang. His research focuses on perovskite solar cells and their failure pathway.

Lixiu Zhang got her BS from Soochow University in 2019. Now she is a PhD student at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Liming Ding. Her research focuses on perovskite solar cells.

Yan Jiang is a Professor at Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory. He received his BS and PhD from Sun Yat-Sen University and Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, respectively. In 2015–2020, he worked at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science and Technology as a postdoc. His research focuses on energy-harvesting materials and devices.

Liming Ding got his PhD from University of Science and Technology of China (was a joint student at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS). He started his research on OSCs and PLEDs in Olle Ingan?s Lab in 1998. Later on, he worked at National Center for Polymer Research, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and ArgonneNational Lab (USA). He joined Konarka as a Senior Scientist in 2008. In 2010, he joined National Center for Nanoscience and Technology as a full professor. His research focuses on innovative materials and devices. He is RSC Fellow, the nominator for Xplorer Prize, and the Associate Editor for Journal of Semiconductors.

Corresponding author: Yan Jiang, jiangyan@sslab.org.cn; Liming Ding, ding@nanoctr.cn

DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/43/10/100201

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[16]	Ji J, Liu X, Jiang H, et al. Two-stage ultraviolet degradation of perovskite solar cells induced by the oxygen vacancy-Ti⁴⁺ states. Iscience, 2020, 23, 101013 doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101013
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Fig. 1. (Color online) (a) Perovskite solar cells in space suffer various radiations. (b) Simulated electron diffraction patterns showing the structural evolution of MAPbI₃ under e-beam irradiation. Reproduced with permission^[2], Copyright 2018, Springer Nature. (c) Transmittance spectra for glass substrates after e-beam irradiation. Reproduced with permission^[3], Copyright 2020, American Chemical Society. (d) β coefficient vs V_oc curves. Reproduced with permission^[7], Copyright 2017, Wiley.

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Fig. 2. (Color online) (a) Schematic for self-healing mechanism in MAPbI₃. Reproduced with permission^[12], Copyright 2020, American Chemical Society. (b) Cs 4d, Br 3d, Pb 5d XPS spectra for CsPbBr₃. Reproduced with permission^[14], Copyright 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry. (c) Schematic for UV-induced degradation of perovskite. Reproduced with permission^[16], Copyright 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry.

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[1]	Yang J, Bao Q, Shen L, et al. Potential applications for perovskite solar cells in space. Nano Energy, 2020, 76, 105019 doi: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105019
[2]	Xiao C, Li Z, Guthrey H, et al. Mechanisms of electron-beam-induced damage in perovskite thin films revealed by cathodoluminescence spectroscopy. J Phys Chem C, 2015, 48, 2690 doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b09698
[3]	Chen S, Zhang X, Zhao J, et al. Atomic scale insights into structure instability and decomposition pathway of methylammonium lead iodide perovskite. Nat Commun, 2018, 9, 1 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02088-w
[4]	Song Z, Li C, Chen C, et al. High remaining factors in the photovoltaic performance of perovskite solar cells after high-fluence electron beam irradiations. J Phys Chem C, 2019, 2, 1330 doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11483
[5]	Miyazawa Y, Ikegami M, Miyasaka T, et al. Evaluation of radiation tolerance of perovskite solar cell for use in space. 2015 IEEE 42nd Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), 2015 doi: doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805547
[6]	Yang S, Xu Z, Xue S, et al. Organohalide lead perovskites: more stable than glass under gamma-ray radiation. Adv Mater, 2019, 31, 1805547 doi: 10.1002/adma.201805547
[7]	Brus V V, Lang F, Bundesmann J, et al. Defect dynamics in proton irradiated CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite solar cells. Adv Electron Mater, 2017, 3, 1600438 doi: 10.1002/aelm.201600438
[8]	Lang F, Jo?t M, Bundesmann J, et al. Efficient minority carrier detrapping mediating the radiation hardness of triple-cation perovskite solar cells under proton irradiation. Energy Environ Sci, 2019, 12, 1634 doi: 10.1039/C9EE00077A
[9]	Paternò G, Robbiano V, Santarelli L, et al. Perovskite solar cell resilience to fast neutrons. Sustain Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 2561 doi: 10.1039/C9SE00102F
[10]	Yang K, Huang K, Li X, et al. Radiation tolerance of perovskite solar cells under gamma ray. Org Electron, 2019, 71, 79 doi: 10.1016/j.orgel.2019.05.008
[11]	Boldyreva A G, Akbulatov A F, Tsarev S A, et al. γ-ray-induced degradation in the triple-cation perovskite solar cells. J Phys Chem C, 2019, 10, 813 doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03222
[12]	Boldyreva A G, Frolova L A, Zhidkov I S, et al. Unravelling the material composition effects on the gamma ray stability of lead halide perovskite solar cells: MAPbI₃ breaks the records. J Phys Chem Lett, 2020, 11, 2630 doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00581
[13]	Motoki K, Miyazawa Y, Kobayashi D, et al. Degradation of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskite due to soft X-ray irradiation as analyzed by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy time-dependent measurement method. J Appl Phys, 2017, 121, 085501 doi: 10.1063/1.4977238
[14]	Svanstr?m S, Fernández A G, Sloboda T, et al. X-ray stability and degradation mechanism of lead halide perovskites and lead halides. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2021, 23, 12479 doi: 10.1039/D1CP01443A
[15]	Leijtens T, Eperon G E, Pathak S, et al. Overcoming ultraviolet light instability of sensitized TiO₂ with meso-superstructured organometal tri-halide perovskite solar cells. Nat Commun, 2013, 4, 1 doi: 10.1038/ncomms3885
[16]	Ji J, Liu X, Jiang H, et al. Two-stage ultraviolet degradation of perovskite solar cells induced by the oxygen vacancy-Ti⁴⁺ states. Iscience, 2020, 23, 101013 doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101013
[17]	Wang S, Jiang Y, Juarez-perez E J, et al. Accelerated degradation of methylammonium lead iodide perovskites induced by exposure to iodine vapour. Nat Energy, 2016, 2, 1 doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.195