Understanding Auger recombination in perovskite solar cells

Enhanced radiative efficiency, long carrier lifetimes, and high carrier mobilities are hallmarks of perovskite solar cells. Considering this, complete cells experience large nonradiative recombination losses that restrict their V OC considerably below the Shockley-Queisser limit. Auger recombination...

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Published in:Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP 2023-06, Vol.25 (24), p.16459-16468
Main Authors: Al-Mousoi, Ali K, Mohammed, Mustafa K. A, Kumar, Anjan, Pandey, Rahul, Madan, Jaya, Dastan, Davoud, Hossain, M. Khalid, Sakthivel, P, Anandha babu, G, Yaseen, Zaher Mundher
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Language:English
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Augers
Current carriers
Perovskites
Photovoltaic cells
Recombination coefficient
Solar cells
Trapped charge
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Summary:Enhanced radiative efficiency, long carrier lifetimes, and high carrier mobilities are hallmarks of perovskite solar cells. Considering this, complete cells experience large nonradiative recombination losses that restrict their V OC considerably below the Shockley-Queisser limit. Auger recombination, which involves two free photo-induced carriers and a trapped charge carrier, is one potential mechanism. Herein, the effects of Auger capture coefficients in mixed-cation perovskites are analyzed employing SCAPS-1D computations. It is demonstrated that V OC and FF are severely decreased with an increase in the acceptor concentration and Auger capture coefficients of perovskites, thus reducing the device performance. When the Auger capture coefficient is increased to 10 −20 cm 6 s −1 under the acceptor concentration of 10 16 cm −3 , the performance is drastically lowered from 21.5% (without taking Auger recombination into account) to 9.9%. The findings suggest that in order to increase the efficiency of perovskite solar cells and prevent the effects of Auger recombination, the Auger recombination coefficients should be less than 10 −24 cm 6 s −1 . The effects of Auger capture coefficients in mixed-cation perovskites are analyzed employing SCAPS-1D simulations.
ISSN:1463-9076
1463-9084
DOI:10.1039/d3cp00441d