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ArticleNature energy2025

The impact of interfacial quality and nanoscale performance disorder on the stability of alloyed perovskite solar cells.

Kyle Frohna, Cullen Chosy, Amran Al-Ashouri, Florian Scheler, Yu-Hsien Chiang, Milos Dubajic, Julia E Parker, Jessica M Walker, Lea Zimmermann, Thomas A Selby and 5 more

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Article in Nature energy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Kyle Frohna *Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2259-6154
Cullen Chosy *Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Amran Al-AshouriDivision Solar Energy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5512-8034
Florian SchelerDivision Solar Energy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5066-3206
Yu-Hsien ChiangCavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Milos DubajicDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9494-8967
Julia E ParkerDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2514-5762
Jessica M WalkerDiamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7218-9138
Lea ZimmermannDivision Solar Energy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5571-9061
Thomas A SelbyDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0009-0003-8655-5559
Yang LuDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2793-2065
Bart RooseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0972-1475
Steve AlbrechtDivision Solar Energy, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Miguel AnayaDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0384-5338
Samuel D StranksDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8303-7292

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microscopy provides a proxy for assessing the operation of perovskite solar cells, yet most works in the literature have focused on bare perovskite thin films, missing charge transport and recombination losses present in full devices. Here we demonstrate a multimodal operando microscopy toolkit to measure and spatially correlate nanoscale charge transport losses, recombination losses and chemical composition. By applying this toolkit to the same scan areas of state-of-the-art, alloyed perovskite cells before and after extended operation, we show that devices with the highest macroscopic performance have the lowest initial performance spatial heterogeneity-a crucial link that is missed in conventional microscopy. We show that engineering stable interfaces is critical to achieving robust devices. Once the interfaces are stabilized, we show that compositional engineering to homogenize charge extraction and to minimize variations in local power conversion efficiency is critical to improve performance and stability. We find that in our device space, perovskites can tolerate spatial disorder in chemistry, but not charge extraction.

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Devices for energy harvestingSolar cellsWide-field fluorescence microscopy

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PMID39885942
PMCPMC11774756

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