{"id":7252,"date":"2019-09-16T09:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/events\/physics-colloquium-halide-perovskites-is-it-all-about-the-interfaces\/"},"modified":"2019-09-16T09:39:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T07:39:52","slug":"physics-colloquium-halide-perovskites-is-it-all-about-the-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/events\/physics-colloquium-halide-perovskites-is-it-all-about-the-interfaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics Colloquium: Halide Perovskites: Is it all about the interfaces?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>In the past decade, halide perovskite (HaP)-based solar cells (PSC) demonstrated a remarkable\u00a0breakthrough in photovoltaic performance with power conversion efficiencies exceeding 25%. HaPs mark\u00a0an outstanding class of materials for photon absorption but are prone to degradation due to their hybrid\u00a0organic inorganic character and hence volatile chemical components and reactive halide ions. While HaPs\u00a0exhibit a pronounced defect tolerance and self-healing such that the electronic properties do not change\u00a0considerably with the formation of defects, film degradation will eventually deteriorate the optoelectronic\u00a0properties. A key strategy to substantially enhance the stability of these compounds is to modify the interfaces and thereby control the chemistry and driving force for ion migration in the perovskite film. My\u00a0talk will focus on the means and developments to analyze and tailor interfaces in HaP based semiconductor\u00a0devices to gain control over the electronic properties at the nanoscale and electronic coupling to adjacent\u00a0functional layers.<\/p><p>I will further highlight the use of photoemission spectroscopy to determine the surface energetics and\u00a0electronic energy level alignment at the HaP\/CTL interface while at the same time tracking the interface\u00a0chemistry. This approach, complemented by optical spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques,\u00a0enables us to evaluate band offsets in the layer system in face of chemical interactions and changes in the\u00a0electrostatic potential at the interfaces. The results not only suggest guidelines on how to integrate CTLs\u00a0into PSCs but also explain more generally to what extent the electronic structure of the perovskite is subject\u00a0to extrinsic perturbations and would ultimately pertain to stability concerns in devices [3]. I will conclude my talk by further exemplifying how surface treatment and interfacial design routes can be\u00a0employed to achieve record power conversion efficiencies in HaP-based quantum dot solar cells. Therein,\u00a0our approach is driven by a targeted ligand exchange chemistry [4].<\/p><p><strong>References<\/strong>:<\/p><p>[1] P. Schulz, ACS Energy Lett. 3, 1287-1293 (2018)<\/p><p>[2] P. Schulz, D. Cahen, A. Kahn. Chem. Rev. 119, 3349-3417 (2019)<\/p><p>[3] J.A. Christians, et al., Nature Energy 3, 68-74 (2018)<\/p><p>[4] L.M. Wheeler, et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 10504 (2018)<\/p><p><strong>BIOGRAPHY<\/strong> : Philip Schulz holds the position of Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and pursues his research activities at the Institut Photovolta\u00efque d\u2019\u00cele-de-France (IPVF) located on the Paris Saclay campus. There, he leads the Interfaces and Hybrid Materials group installed through a Young Investigator award in the \u201cMake Our Planet Great Again\u201d initiative of President Emmanuel Macron of the French Republic. Before entering CNRS in 2017, Philip Schulz has been a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) from 2014 to 2017 and the Surface and Interfaces Science Laboratory at Princeton University from 2012 to 2014, where he studied interface design in organic electronics and hybrid solar cells. Philip Schulz received his Ph.D. in physics from the RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2012, where he was awarded a DAAD fellowship to pursue part of his studies at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).<\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7253,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2019-11-20 15:30:00","event_end_date":"2019-11-20 17:30:00","event_speaker_name":"Philip Schulz, invited by Prof. Alex Redinger ","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":" Campus Limpertsberg: B\u00e2timent des Sciences \u2013 room 2.04 ","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[315],"events-type":[],"organisation":[80],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Physics Colloquium: Halide Perovskites: Is it all about the interfaces? 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