Hysteresis and Capacitive Features of Perovskite Solar Cells

Osbel Almora (2020)
Directors: Germà Garcia-Belmonte
Date of defense: 

2020-06-19

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14104.2020.603901

Full thesis in TDX: https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/669272

Summary

In the present work, anomalous distortions occurring in the current-voltage characteristic of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), usually called J-V curve hysteresis, are studied by several methods. This includes dynamic direct current (DC) mode J-V experiments and impedance spectroscopy (IS) analyses in dark and under illumination. The J-V curves of PSCs were measured under different conditions showing capacitive hysteretic currents. This is related with low frequency excess capacitance in the IS spectra. These two features are correlated with the response of mobile ions in space charge regions close to the interfaces. The large values of capacitance under illumination in the sub-Hz regime were explained in terms of mobile ions space charges and chemical capacitances assuming a proportionality between the number of ionized/activated mobile ions and the concentration of charge carriers and photon fluence.