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51 Citations
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21 December 2020

Perovskite materials have been widely considered as emerging photocatalysts for CO2 reduction due to their extraordinary physicochemical and optical properties. Perovskites offer a wide range of benefits compared to conventional semiconductors, inclu...

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21 Citations
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13 Pages

Formamidinium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocomposite Scintillators

  • Isabel H. B. Braddock,
  • Maya Al Sid Cheikh,
  • Joydip Ghosh,
  • Roma E. Mulholland,
  • Joseph G. O’Neill,
  • Vlad Stolojan,
  • Carol Crean,
  • Stephen J. Sweeney and
  • Paul J. Sellin

22 June 2022

While there is great demand for effective, affordable radiation detectors in various applications, many commonly used scintillators have major drawbacks. Conventional inorganic scintillators have a fixed emission wavelength and require expensive, hig...

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11 Citations
4,813 Views
29 Pages

Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Light-Emitting Diodes

  • Do-Young Kim,
  • Jae-Geun Jung,
  • Ye-Ji Lee and
  • Min-Ho Park

20 September 2023

Lead-based halide perovskite nanocrystals (PeNCs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for use in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This is because of their high photoluminescence quantum yield, defect tolerance, tunable emission wavelength, color puri...

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122 Citations
15,374 Views
17 Pages

Advancement on Lead-Free Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells: A Review

  • Faruk Sani,
  • Suhaidi Shafie,
  • Hong Ngee Lim and
  • Abubakar Ohinoyi Musa

14 June 2018

Remarkable attention has been committed to the recently discovered cost effective and solution processable lead-free organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells. Recent studies have reported that, within five years, the reported efficiency has re...

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21 Citations
4,819 Views
23 Pages

Humidity Sensing Applications of Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Nanomaterials

  • Kevin Tambwe,
  • Natasha Ross,
  • Priscilla Baker,
  • Thanh-Tuân Bui and
  • Fabrice Goubard

10 June 2022

Over the past decade, perovskite-based nanomaterials have gained notoriety within the scientific community and have been used for a variety of viable applications. The unique structural properties of these materials, namely good direct bandgap, low d...

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2 Citations
2,085 Views
25 Pages

Novel Lead Halide Perovskite and Copper Iodide Materials for Fluorescence Sensing of Oxygen

  • Jingwen Jin,
  • Yaning Huang,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Shaoxing Jiang and
  • Xi Chen

21 February 2025

The most commonly used optical oxygen sensing materials are phosphorescent molecules and functionalized nanocrystals. Many exploration studies on oxygen sensing have been carried out using the fluorescence or phosphorescence of semiconductor nanomate...

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28 Citations
8,832 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2021

Lead-halide perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) are attractive nano-building blocks for photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices as well as quantum light sources. Such developments require a better knowledge of the fundamental electronic and optical proper...

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10 Citations
6,634 Views
21 Pages

Halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) exhibit remarkable potential for addressing global energy challenges due to their exceptional photovoltaic properties and cost-effectiveness. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by the presence of toxic...

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16 Citations
4,487 Views
12 Pages

9 December 2019

All inorganic cesium lead halide (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, I) perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) exhibit promising applications in light-emitting devices due to their excellent photophysical properties. Herein, we developed a low-cost and convenient method fo...

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27 Pages

In recent years, the development of new efficient, fast, and intuitive materials and methods for photoluminescence (PL) sensing has become a research hotspot in analytical chemistry. Lead halide perovskite (LHP) materials have the characteristics of...

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18 Citations
5,329 Views
13 Pages

Giant Zero-Drift Electronic Behaviors in Methylammonium Lead Halide Perovskite Diodes by Doping Iodine Ions

  • Tiqiang Pang,
  • Renxu Jia,
  • Yucheng Wang,
  • Kai Sun,
  • Ziyang Hu,
  • Yuejin Zhu,
  • Suzhen Luan and
  • Yuming Zhang

4 September 2018

Methylammonium lead halide perovskites have attracted extensive attention for optoelectronic applications. Carrier transport in perovskites is obscured by vacancy-mediated ion migration, resulting in anomalous electronic behavior and deteriorated rel...

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1 Citations
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12 Pages

Generation of Hybrid Lead Halide CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Perovskite Crystals via Convective Self-Assembly

  • Ioan Petrovai,
  • Otto Todor-Boer,
  • Adriana Vulpoi,
  • Leontin David and
  • Ioan Botiz

20 June 2023

In this study, we have employed a film deposition technique based on convective forces acting at the triple air–solution–substrate contact line to tune the rate of solvent evaporation and, thus, to exert control over the morphology of the...

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24 Citations
7,086 Views
11 Pages

Scintillation Response Enhancement in Nanocrystalline Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films on Scintillating Wafers

  • Kateřina Děcká,
  • Jan Král,
  • František Hájek,
  • Petr Průša,
  • Vladimir Babin,
  • Eva Mihóková and
  • Václav Čuba

21 December 2021

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals of the formula CsPbBr3 have recently been identified as potential time taggers in scintillating heterostructures for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) imaging thanks to their ultrafast decay kin...

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16 Citations
5,491 Views
16 Pages

16 February 2023

Lead–halide perovskite nanocrystals are an attractive class of materials since they can be easily fabricated, their optical properties can be tuned all over the visible spectral range, and they possess high emission quantum yields and narrow ph...

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14 Citations
3,689 Views
15 Pages

Amplified Spontaneous Emission Threshold Dependence on Determination Method in Dye-Doped Polymer and Lead Halide Perovskite Waveguides

  • Stefania Milanese,
  • Maria Luisa De Giorgi,
  • Luis Cerdán,
  • Maria-Grazia La-Placa,
  • Nur Fadilah Jamaludin,
  • Annalisa Bruno,
  • Henk J. Bolink,
  • Maksym V. Kovalenko and
  • Marco Anni

Nowadays, the search for novel active materials for laser devices is proceeding faster and faster thanks to the development of innovative materials able to combine excellent stimulated emission properties with low-cost synthesis and processing techni...

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27 Citations
7,302 Views
12 Pages

17 November 2022

Three-dimensional lead halide perovskites are known for their excellent optoelectronic properties, making them suitable for photovoltaic and light-emitting applications. Here, we report for the first time the Raman spectra and photoluminescent (PL) p...

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54 Citations
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30 Pages

29 October 2019

Lead halide perovskites are currently receiving increasing attention due to their potential to combine easy active layers fabrication, tunable electronic and optical properties with promising performance of optoelectronic and photonic device prototyp...

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37 Citations
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40 Pages

30 October 2020

Despite the advancement made by the scientific community in the evolving photovoltaic technologies, including the achievement of a 29.1% power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells over the past two decades, there are still numerous challen...

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11 Citations
4,143 Views
41 Pages

29 January 2021

Lead halide perovskites are currently widely investigated as active materials in photonic and optoelectronic devices. While the lack of long term stability actually limits their application to commercial devices, several experiments demonstrated that...

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First-Principles Investigation of the Structural Stability and Physical Properties of Lead-Free Ge-Based Halide Perovskites

  • Liang Wang,
  • Longze Li,
  • Jiayin Zhang,
  • Shuying Zhong,
  • Bo Xu,
  • Musheng Wu and
  • Chuying Ouyang

5 September 2025

Inorganic lead halide perovskite semiconductor materials exhibit great potential in the optoelectronic field due to their excellent optical and electrical properties. However, lead toxicity and limited material stability hinder their commercial appli...

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3 Citations
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34 Pages

Mapping Uncharted Lead-Free Halide Perovskites and Related Low-Dimensional Structures

  • Anna Dávid,
  • Julia Morát,
  • Mengyun Chen,
  • Feng Gao,
  • Mats Fahlman and
  • Xianjie Liu

19 January 2024

Research on perovskites has grown exponentially in the past decade due to the potential of methyl ammonium lead iodide in photovoltaics. Although these devices have achieved remarkable and competitive power conversion efficiency, concerns have been r...

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35 Citations
6,892 Views
23 Pages

Lead-Free Metal Halide Perovskites for Hydrogen Evolution from Aqueous Solutions

  • Vincenza Armenise,
  • Silvia Colella,
  • Francesco Fracassi and
  • Andrea Listorti

9 February 2021

Metal halide perovskites (MHPs) exploitation represents the next big frontier in photovoltaic technologies. However, the extraordinary optoelectronic properties of these materials also call for alternative utilizations, such as in solar-driven photoc...

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2 Citations
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10 Pages

Microencapsulation of Lead-Halide Perovskites in an Oil-in-Fluorine Emulsion for Cell Imaging

  • Jia-Xin Wang,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Hao Huang,
  • Rui He,
  • Shengyong Geng and
  • Xue-Feng Yu

The superior optical properties of lead-halide perovskites (LHPs) inspired significant research in cell imaging applications; many encapsulating processes have improved perovskite stabilities with comparable biosafety. Herein, facile solvent evaporat...

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5 Citations
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24 Pages

Emerging Nonlinear Photocurrents in Lead Halide Perovskites for Spintronics

  • Jianbin Chen,
  • Hacer Koc,
  • Shengkai Zhao,
  • Kaiyu Wang,
  • Lingfeng Chao and
  • Mustafa Eginligil

16 April 2024

Lead halide perovskites (LHPs) containing organic parts are emerging optoelectronic materials with a wide range of applications thanks to their high optical absorption, carrier mobility, and easy preparation methods. They possess spin-dependent prope...

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7 Citations
4,108 Views
9 Pages

5 November 2020

Lead halide perovskites possess outstanding optical characteristics that can be employed in the fabrication of phototransistors. However, due to low current modulation at room temperature, sensitivity to the ambient environment, lack of patterning te...

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16 Citations
4,187 Views
14 Pages

Band Gap and Topology of 1D Perovskite-Derived Hybrid Lead Halide Structures

  • Ekaterina I. Marchenko,
  • Sergey A. Fateev,
  • Eugene A. Goodilin and
  • Alexey B. Tarasov

4 May 2022

The unprecedented structural flexibility of hybrid halide perovskites is accompanied by a wide range of useful optoelectronic properties, causing a high interest in this family of materials. However, there are no systematic studies yet on the relatio...

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9 Citations
3,137 Views
20 Pages

Systematic Microwave-Assisted Postsynthesis of Mn-Doped Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites with Improved Color-Tunable Luminescence and Stability

  • Yaheng Zhang,
  • Chao Fan,
  • Jianghong Tang,
  • Gaoming Huang,
  • Xinfa Qiang,
  • Yu Fu,
  • Wenjuan Zhou,
  • Juan Wu and
  • Shouqiang Huang

23 July 2022

The metal doping at the Pb2+ position provides improved luminescence performance for the cesium lead halide perovskites, and their fabrication methods assisted by microwave have attracted considerable attention due to the advantages of fast heating a...

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21 Citations
4,135 Views
17 Pages

Dielectric Confinement and Exciton Fine Structure in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplatelets

  • Amal Ghribi,
  • Rim Ben Aich,
  • Kaïs Boujdaria,
  • Thierry Barisien,
  • Laurent Legrand,
  • Maria Chamarro and
  • Christophe Testelin

13 November 2021

Owing to their flexible chemical synthesis and the ability to shape nanostructures, lead halide perovskites have emerged as high potential materials for optoelectronic devices. Here, we investigate the excitonic band edge states and their energies le...

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15 Citations
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13 Pages

Organic–Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskite Single Crystal: From Synthesis to Applications

  • Zhenye Liang,
  • Chen Tian,
  • Xiaoxi Li,
  • Liwei Cheng,
  • Shanglei Feng,
  • Lifeng Yang,
  • Yingguo Yang and
  • Lina Li

28 November 2022

Organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite is widely used in the photoelectric field due to its excellent photoelectric characteristics. Among them, perovskite single crystals have attracted much attention due to its lower trap density and better...

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34 Citations
7,468 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Annealing Conditions on Mixed Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells and Their Thermal Stability Investigation

  • Haifeng Yang,
  • Jincheng Zhang,
  • Chunfu Zhang,
  • Jingjing Chang,
  • Zhenhua Lin,
  • Dazheng Chen,
  • He Xi and
  • Yue Hao

21 July 2017

In this work, efficient mixed organic cation and mixed halide (MA0.7FA0.3Pb(I0.9Br0.1)3) perovskite solar cells are demonstrated by optimizing annealing conditions. AFM, XRD and PL measurements show that there is a better perovskite film quality for...

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31 Citations
5,598 Views
22 Pages

Lead-Free Halide Double Perovskite for High-Performance Photodetectors: Progress and Perspective

  • Xiaoyan Li,
  • Junzhe Shi,
  • Jianjun Chen,
  • Zuojun Tan and
  • Hongwei Lei

20 June 2023

Lead halide perovskite has become a promising candidate for high-performance photodetectors (PDs) due to its attractive optical and electrical properties, such as high optical absorption coefficient, high carrier mobility, and long carrier diffusion...

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9 Citations
3,467 Views
12 Pages

Hot-Injection Synthesis of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanowires with Tunable Optical Properties

  • Jiazhen He,
  • Hang Li,
  • Chengqi Liu,
  • Xiaoqian Wang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Jinfeng Liu,
  • Mingwei Wang and
  • Yong Liu

7 May 2024

Metal halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as promising materials for various optoelectronic applications due to their unique crystal structure and outstanding properties. Among different forms, perovskite nanowires (NWs) offer distinct adva...

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9 Citations
1,820 Views
13 Pages

Enhancing the Photocatalytic Activity of Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 by Compositing with Ti3C2 MXene

  • Tao Tang,
  • Xiaoyu Dou,
  • Haoran Zhang,
  • Hexu Wang,
  • Ming Li,
  • Guanghui Hu,
  • Jianfeng Wen and
  • Li Jiang

28 October 2024

In recent years, halide perovskite materials have become widely used in solar cells, photovoltaics, and LEDs, as well as photocatalysis. Lead-free perovskite Cs3Bi2I9 has been demonstrated as an effective photocatalyst; however, the fast recombinatio...

  • Review
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58 Citations
14,483 Views
21 Pages

28 April 2020

In order to reach the theoretical efficiency limits of lead-based metal halide perovskite solar cells, the voltage should be enhanced because it suffers from non-radiative recombination. Perovskite materials contain intrinsic defects that can act as...

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3 Citations
2,474 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2023

Perovskites have been recognized as a class of promising materials for optoelectronic devices. We intentionally include excessive Cs+ cations in precursors in the synthesis of perovskite CsPbBr3 nanocrystals and investigate how the Cs+ cations influe...

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6 Citations
3,900 Views
11 Pages

Fast Lead-Free Humidity Sensor Based on Hybrid Halide Perovskite

  • Veljko Djokić,
  • Pavao Andričević,
  • Márton Kollár,
  • Anastasiia Ciers,
  • Alla Arakcheeva,
  • Milica Vasiljević,
  • Dragan Damjanović,
  • László Forró,
  • Endre Horváth and
  • Trpimir Ivšić

14 April 2022

An environmentally friendly analog of the prominent methylammonium lead halide perovskite, methylammonium bismuth bromide (MA3Bi2Br9), was prepared and investigated in the form of powder, single crystals and nanowires. Complete characterization via s...

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65 Citations
10,884 Views
31 Pages

23 January 2020

Lead halide perovskites have gained more and more attention because of their ease of synthesis and excellent photoelectric properties including a large absorption coefficient, long carrier lifetime, long carrier diffusion length, and high carrier mob...

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4 Citations
2,737 Views
19 Pages

31 March 2023

Perovskite solar cells have become more and more attractive and competitive. However, their toxicity induced by the presence of lead and their rather low stability hinders their potential and future commercialization. Reducing lead content while impr...

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28 Citations
6,175 Views
25 Pages

27 July 2023

Lead-based halide perovskite materials are being developed as efficient light-absorbing materials for use in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). PSCs have shown remarkable progress in power conversion efficiency, increasing from 3.80% to more than 25% wit...

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27 Citations
13,562 Views
28 Pages

Nanostructured Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Calum McDonald,
  • Chengsheng Ni,
  • Paul Maguire,
  • Paul Connor,
  • John T. S. Irvine,
  • Davide Mariotti and
  • Vladimir Svrcek

18 October 2019

Over the past decade, lead halide perovskites have emerged as one of the leading photovoltaic materials due to their long carrier lifetimes, high absorption coefficients, high tolerance to defects, and facile processing methods. With a bandgap of ~1....

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7 Citations
6,511 Views
25 Pages

The surface chemistry of cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals has been elaborately studied in recent years and has proved the critical role of carboxylic acids and amines in the formation and stability of the nanocrystals. Specifically, a sligh...

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10 Citations
5,002 Views
11 Pages

Despite intensive efforts, the fluorescence of perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) still suffers from a poor color purity, which limits the applications in light emitting and multicolor display. A deep understanding on the fundamental of the photoluminesce...

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4 Citations
6,005 Views
24 Pages

Single Crystal Sn-Based Halide Perovskites

  • Aditya Bhardwaj,
  • Daniela Marongiu,
  • Valeria Demontis,
  • Angelica Simbula,
  • Francesco Quochi,
  • Michele Saba,
  • Andrea Mura and
  • Giovanni Bongiovanni

4 September 2024

Sn-based halide perovskites are expected to be the best replacement for toxic lead-based counterparts, owing to their similar ionic radii and the optimal band gap for use in solar cells, as well as their versatile use in light-emitting diodes and pho...

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4 Citations
3,715 Views
8 Pages

A 3D Lead Iodide Hybrid Based on a 2D Perovskite Subnetwork

  • Maroua Ben Haj Salah,
  • Justine Tessier,
  • Nicolas Mercier,
  • Magali Allain,
  • Antonin Leblanc,
  • Xiaoyang Che,
  • Claudine Katan and
  • Mikael Kepenekian

16 December 2021

Lead halide perovskites have emerged as promising materials for various optoelectronic applications. For photovoltaics, the reference compound is the 3D perovskite (MA)PbI3 (MA+ = methylammonium). However, this material suffers from instabilities tow...

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52 Citations
10,800 Views
26 Pages

16 January 2024

Metal halide perovskite materials have shown significant advancements in their application as light absorbers in perovskite solar cells, with power conversion efficiencies reaching 27%. However, lead-based perovskites pose a concern due to their toxi...

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514 Views
12 Pages

5 December 2025

Doping lead-free halide perovskite nanocrystals with trivalent lanthanide ions has emerged as a promising strategy for engineering their optical properties in various photonic applications. Here, we report the design and synthesis of a series of lead...

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16 Citations
6,551 Views
23 Pages

15 July 2024

The ligand engineering of inorganic lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) is an indispensable strategy to boost their photoluminescence stability, which is pivotal for optoelectronics applications. CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) PQDs exhibit exceptional...

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7 Citations
3,274 Views
13 Pages

Improving the Stability of Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Using Nanoparticles of Tungsten Disulfide

  • Philip Nathaniel Immanuel,
  • Song-Jeng Huang,
  • Viktor Danchuk,
  • Anastasiya Sedova,
  • Johnathan Prilusky,
  • Achiad Goldreich,
  • Hila Shalom,
  • Albina Musin and
  • Lena Yadgarov

15 December 2022

Halide perovskites-based solar cells are drawing significant attention due to their high efficiency, versatility, and affordable processing. Hence, halide perovskite solar cells have great potential to be commercialized. However, the halide perovskit...

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5 Citations
3,181 Views
14 Pages

Butanediammonium Salt Additives for Increasing Functional and Operando Stability of Light-Harvesting Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Natalia N. Udalova,
  • Aleksandra K. Moskalenko,
  • Nikolai A. Belich,
  • Pavel A. Ivlev,
  • Andrey S. Tutantsev,
  • Eugene A. Goodilin and
  • Alexey B. Tarasov

7 December 2022

Organic diammonium cations are a promising component of both layered (2D) and conventional (3D) hybrid halide perovskites in terms of increasing the stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). We investigated the crystallization ability of phase-pure...

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1 Citations
1,463 Views
8 Pages

Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Control over the Photolysis of PbI2 Through Partial Lead Substitution

  • Marina I. Ustinova,
  • Gennadii V. Shilov,
  • Pavel A. Troshin,
  • Sergey M. Aldoshin and
  • Lyubov A. Frolova

A crucial problem of the photoinduced degradation of perovskite semiconductors based on complex lead halides has been addressed here by suppressing PbI2 photolysis to metallic lead. The systematic screening of >30 modifying cations introduced as s...

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