Reevaluation of Photoluminescence Intensity as an Indicator of Efficiency in Perovskite Solar Cells
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Abstract
The photoluminescence (PL) intensity is often used as an indicator of the performance of perovskite solar cells and indeed the PL technique is often used for the characterization of these devices and their constituent materials. Herein, a systematic approach is presented to the comparison of the conversion efficiency and the PL intensity of a cell in both open‐circuit (OC) and short‐circuit (SC) conditions and its application to multiple heterogeneous devices. It is shown that the quenching of the PL observed in SC conditions is a good parameter to assess the device efficiency. The authors explain the dependence of the PL quenching ratio between OC and SC on the cell efficiency with a simple model that is also able to estimate the carrier extraction time of a device.Keywords
Funding Information
- Regione Lazio
- Ministero delle imprese e del made in Italy
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