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Passivation of PEA+ to CsPbI3 (110) Surface States: From the First Principles Calculations
Wei Hu1,2, Fengjuan Si3, Hongtao Xue1, Wensheng Li1, Jun Hu4, Fuling Tang1,*
1
School of Materials Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Nonferrous Metals,
Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China
2
Department of Materials Engineering, Lanzhou Institute of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China
3
School of Peili Mechanical Engineering, Lanzhou City College, Lanzhou, 730070, China
4
School of Chemical Engineering, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710069, China
* Corresponding Author: Fuling Tang. Email:
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Perovskite Solar Cells)
Journal of Renewable Materials 2023, 11(3), 1293-1301. https://doi.org/10.32604/jrm.2022.023095
Received 09 April 2022; Accepted 10 May 2022; Issue published 31 October 2022
Abstract
This work investigates the effect of passivation on the electronic properties of inorganic perovskite CsPbI
3 materials by using first-principles calculations with density functional theory (DFT). The passivation effect after the
addition of Phenylethylamine (PEA
+
) molecule to CsPbI
3 (110) surface is studied. The results of density of states
(DOS) calculations show that the CsPbI
3 (110) surface model with I atom terminated reveals new electronic DOS
peaks (surface states) near the Fermi level. These surface states are mainly due to the contribution of I-5
p orbital
and are harmful to the CsPbI
3-based solar cells because they reduce the photoelectric conversion efficiency. The
surface states near the Fermi level are significantly reduced, and the decline rate reaches 38.8% with the addition
with PEA
+ molecule to the CsPbI
3 (110) surface.
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Cite This Article
Hu, W., Si, F., Xue, H., Li, W., Hu, J. et al. (2023). Passivation of PEA
+ to CsPbI
3 (110) Surface States: From the First Principles Calculations.
Journal of Renewable Materials, 11(3), 1293–1301. https://doi.org/10.32604/jrm.2022.023095