Impact of a Short-Pulse High-Intense Proton Irradiation on High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells


Parkhomenko H.P. Solovan M.M. Sahare S. Mostovyi A.I. Aidarkhanov D. Schopp N. Kovaliuk T. Kaikanov M. Ng A. Brus V.V.
4 March 2024John Wiley and Sons Inc

Advanced Functional Materials
2024#34Issue 10

This work investigates the radiation resistance of high-performance multi-component perovskite solar cells (PSCs) for the first time under extreme short-pulse proton irradiation conditions. The devices are subjected to high-intensity 170 keV pulsed (150 ns) proton irradiation, with a fluence of up to 1013 p cm−2, corresponding to ≈30 years of operation at low Earth orbit. A complex material characterization of the perovskite active layer and device physics analysis of the PSCs before and after short-pulse proton irradiation is conducted. The obtained results indicate that the photovoltaic performance of the solar cells experiences a slight deterioration up to 20 % and 50 % following the low 2 × 1012 p cm−2 and high 1 × 1013 p cm−2 proton fluences, respectively, due to increased non-radiative recombination losses. The findings reveal that multi-component PSCs are immune even to extreme high-intense short-pulse proton irradiation, which exceeds harsh space conditions, including intense coronal ejection events usually associated with solar flares.

hybrid perovskite , radiation resistance , recombination losses

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Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Humanities, Nazarbayev University, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, 61-614, Poland
Department of Electronics and Energy Engineering, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Chernivtsi, 58012, Ukraine
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
First Solar Inc., 28101 Cedar Park Blvd, Perrysburg, 43551, OH, United States
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, 12116, Czech Republic

Department of Physics
Faculty of Physics
Department of Electronics and Energy Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Solar Inc.
Department of Condensed Matter Physics

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