Bromine Incorporation and Suppressed Cation Rotation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Engineering the composition of perovskite active layers has been critical in increasing the efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) to more than 25% in the latest reports. Partial substitutions of the monovalent cation and the halogen have been adopted in the highest-performing devices, but the precise role of bromine incorporation remains incompletely explained. Here we use quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to study, as a function of the degree of bromine incorporation, the dynamics of organic cations in triple-cation lead mixed-halide perovskites. We find that the inclusion of bromine suppresses low-energy rotations of formamidinium (FA), and we find that inhibiting FA rotation correlates with a longer-lived carrier lifetime. When the fraction of bromine approaches 0.15 on the halogen site-a composition used extensively in the PSC literature-the fraction of actively rotating FA molecules is minimized: indeed, the fraction of rotating FA is suppressed by more than 25% compared to the bromine-free perovskite.