Systematic derivation of a surface polarisation model for planar perovskite solar cells

DOI10.1017/S0956792518000207MaRDI QIDQ5205832zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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Publication date 16 December 2019

Published in European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09210

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic analysisdrift-diffusionion vacancyperovskitesolar cell

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PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Numerical methods for stiff equations (65L04) Numerical methods for differential-algebraic equations (65L80) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Method of lines for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M20) Motion of charged particles (78A35) Asymptotic analysis in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M35) Statistical mechanics of semiconductors (82D37) Computational density functional analysis in statistical mechanics (82M36)

Abstract: Increasing evidence suggests that the presence of mobile ions in perovskite solar cells can cause a current-voltage curve hysteresis. Steady state and transient current-voltage characteristics of a planar metal halide CH${}_3$NH${}_3$PbI${}_3$ perovskite solar cell are analysed with a drift-diffusion model that accounts for both charge transport and ion vacancy motion. The high ion vacancy density within the perovskite layer gives rise to narrow Debye layers (typical width $sim$2nm), adjacent to the interfaces with the transport layers, over which large drops in the electric potential occur and in which significant charge is stored. Large disparities between (I) the width of the Debye layers and that of the perovskite layer ($sim$600nm) and (II) the ion vacancy density and the charge carrier densities motivate an asymptotic approach to solving the model, while the stiffness of the equations renders standard solution methods unreliable. We derive a simplified surface polarisation model in which the slow ion dynamic are replaced by interfacial (nonlinear) capacitances at the perovskite interfaces. Favourable comparison is made between the results of the asymptotic approach and numerical solutions for a realistic cell over a wide range of operating conditions of practical interest.

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