articleJournal of the American Chemical SocietyJan 23, 2017GREEN OA

Design of Lead-Free Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Solar Cells via Cation-Transmutation

Jilin University · State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

Hybrid organic–inorganic halide perovskites with the prototype material of CH3NH3PbI3 have recently attracted intense interest as low-cost and high-performance photovoltaic absorbers. Despite the high power conversion efficiency exceeding 20% achieved by their solar cells, two key issues—the poor device stabilities associated with their intrinsic material instability and the toxicity due to water-soluble Pb2+—need to be resolved before large-scale commercialization. Here, we address these issues by exploiting the strategy of cation-transmutation to design stable inorganic Pb-free halide perovskites for solar cells. The idea is to convert two divalent Pb2+ ions into one monovalent M+ and one trivalent M3+ ions,…

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