Issue 29, 2015

Intrinsic defects in a photovoltaic perovskite variant Cs2SnI6

Abstract

Cs2SnI6, a rarely studied perovskite variant material, is recently gaining a lot of interest in the field of photovoltaics owing to its nontoxicity, air-stability and promising photovoltaic properties. In this work, we report intrinsic defects in Cs2SnI6 using first-principles density functional theory calculations. It is revealed that iodine vacancy and tin interstitial are the dominant defects that are responsible for the intrinsic n-type conduction in Cs2SnI6. Tin vacancy has a very high formation energy (>3.6 eV) due to the strong covalency in the Sn–I bonds and is hardly generated for p-type doping. All the dominant defects in Cs2SnI6 have deep transition levels in the band gap. It is suggested that the formation of deep defects can be suppressed significantly by employing an I-rich synthesis condition, which is inevitable for photovoltaic and other semiconductor applications.

Graphical abstract: Intrinsic defects in a photovoltaic perovskite variant Cs2SnI6

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 May 2015
Accepted
23 Jun 2015
First published
25 Jun 2015

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015,17, 18900-18903

Intrinsic defects in a photovoltaic perovskite variant Cs2SnI6

Z. Xiao, Y. Zhou, H. Hosono and T. Kamiya, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 18900 DOI: 10.1039/C5CP03102H

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