Bandlike transport and charge-carrier dynamics in BiOI films

Following the emergence of lead halide perovskites (LHPs) as materials for efficient solar cells, research has progressed to explore stable, abundant, and nontoxic alternatives. However, the performance of such lead-free perovskite-inspired materials (PIMs) still lags significantly behind that of th...

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Main Authors: Lal, S, Righetto, M, Ulatowski, AM, Motti, SG, Sun, Z, MacManus-Driscoll, JL, Hoye, RLZ, Herz, LM
格式: Journal article
语言:English
出版: American Chemical Society 2023
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总结:Following the emergence of lead halide perovskites (LHPs) as materials for efficient solar cells, research has progressed to explore stable, abundant, and nontoxic alternatives. However, the performance of such lead-free perovskite-inspired materials (PIMs) still lags significantly behind that of their LHP counterparts. For bismuth-based PIMs, one significant reason is a frequently observed ultrafast charge-carrier localization (or self-trapping), which imposes a fundamental limit on long-range mobility. Here we report the terahertz (THz) photoconductivity dynamics in thin films of BiOI and demonstrate a lack of such self-trapping, with good charge-carrier mobility, reaching ∼3 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> at 295 K and increasing gradually to ∼13 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup> at 5 K, indicative of prevailing bandlike transport. Using a combination of transient photoluminescence and THz- and microwave-conductivity spectroscopy, we further investigate charge-carrier recombination processes, revealing charge-specific trapping of electrons at defects in BiOI over nanoseconds and low bimolecular band-to-band recombination. Subject to the development of passivation protocols, BiOI thus emerges as a superior light-harvesting semiconductor among the family of bismuth-based semiconductors.