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The effect of bromide precursor on the properties of organolead halide perovskite for solar cell fabricated under ambient condition

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Hybrid CH3NH3PbI3 − xBrx have drawn a tremendous interest as light harvesters in mesoscopic and planar heterojunction solar cells due to their high coefficient absorption. Herein, we investigated the difference between the effect of different bromide precursor on the properties of prepared CH3NH3PbI3 − xBrx thin film. In this study, the CH3NH3PbI3 − xBrx perovskite films were made by two processes. The first process consist in adding PbBr2 in the PbI2 with different molar ratios (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1) followed by depositing MAI in isopropanol. The second process resides in depositing CH3N3Br in isopropanol on the top of PbI2 − xBrx followed by dropping a solution of MAI in isopropanol. The study revealed that the prepared thin film using the first process with molar ratio 0.05 exhibited high crystallinity, suitable morphology, high absorption with non-radiative recombination. These attractive properties of the thin film prepared by the first process should heighten interest in its use as a solar absorber layer for increasing of solar cells efficiency.

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Dads, H.A., El Kissani, A., Hanaoui, S. et al. The effect of bromide precursor on the properties of organolead halide perovskite for solar cell fabricated under ambient condition. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 3797–3808 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-05123-7

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