Additive effect on hot carrier cooling in a hybrid perovskite

Abstract

Slowing hot carrier (HC) cooling in lead halide perovskites is important to further improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, we found that HC cooling can be efficiently prolonged by incorporating an organic small molecule (TDGA) into the perovskite film as an additive through transient absorption spectroscopy measurements, which is conducive to the extraction of the HC energies by the carrier transport layers and reduces charge carrier recombination, consequently improving the efficiency of the TDGA-doped device.