Single‐Crystal Nanowire Cesium Tin Triiodide Perovskite Solar Cell
Letian Dai, Pere Roca i Cabarrocas, Huaxia Ban, Zhiguo Zhang, Qiang Sun, Xiongjie Li, Anjie Gu, Wanpeng Yang, Haixuan Yu, Yan Shen, Mingkui Wang
Abstract
Abstract This work reports for the first time a highly efficient single‐crystal cesium tin triiodide (CsSnI 3 ) perovskite nanowire solar cell. With a perfect lattice structure, low carrier trap density (≈5 × 10 10 cm −3 ), long carrier lifetime (46.7 ns), and excellent carrier mobility (>600 cm 2 V −1 s −1 ), single‐crystal CsSnI 3 perovskite nanowires enable a very attractive feature for flexible perovskite photovoltaics to power active micro‐scale electronic devices. Using CsSnI 3 single‐crystal nanowire in conjunction with highly conductive wide bandgap semiconductors as front‐surface‐field layers, an unprecedented efficiency of 11.7% under AM 1.5G illumination is achieved. This work demonstrates the feasibility of all‐inorganic tin‐based perovskite solar cells via crystallinity and device‐structure improvement for the high‐performance, and thus paves the way for the energy supply to flexible wearable devices in the future.