Abstract

Metal halide perovskites are the first solution processed semiconductors that can compete in their functionality with conventional semiconductors, such as silicon. Over the past several years, perovskite semiconductors have reported breakthroughs in various optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells, photodetectors, light emitting and memory devices, and so on. Until now, perovskite semiconductors face challenges regarding their stability, reproducibility, and toxicity. In this Roadmap, we combine the expertise of chemistry, physics, and device engineering from leading experts in the perovskite research community to focus on the fundamental material properties, the fabrication methods, characterization and photophysical properties, perovskite devices, and current challenges in this field. We develop a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art and offer readers an informed perspective of where this field is heading and what challenges we have to overcome to get to successful commercialization.

Highlights

  • The challenge of environmental deterioration of perovskites has been tackled by encapsulation technologies,[66] the intrinsic instabilities of the material under applied voltage, light-soaking, thermal stress reflected in hysteresis, and performance drift continue to compromise the longterm stability

  • The use of expensive charge selective materials, e.g., spiro-OMeTAD, and gold electrode in the highly efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) increases the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) by up to 500%–800% compared to the module, which was calculated to be

  • A fundamental understanding on charge transport layers (CTLs)/perovskite interfaces to improve the performance of PSCs close to their thermodynamic limit needs further studies

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Research on metal halide perovskites has made tremendous progress. When it comes to commercialization, one needs to consider fabrication issues related to upscaling laboratory-scale devices to larger areas Despite these challenges concerning understanding device physics and functionality, there has been no material class in the recent past that attracted such high interest and introduced a paradigm change concerning the efficiency of solution processed semiconductors for solar cells. In this Roadmap, we summarize various important aspects to provide an overview of the current status of perovskite semiconductor research and indicate promising directions for future research efforts

Perovskite structure and compositional engineering
Status of area
Current and future challenges
Current status
Dielectric effects
Advances in science and engineering to meet these challenges
Concluding remarks
Status of the area
Structural investigations
Progress
Solution-chemistry of hybrid perovskite semiconductors
Perovskite processing
Thermal sublimation of perovskite films
CVD growth of perovskites
Hybrid perovskite crystals
CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES
High open circuit voltage
Advances in science
Charge recombination in the bulk and at the interfaces
Interfaces
Electron and hole transport layers
Evolution of ETL and HTL in PSCs
Advances in science and technology to meet challenges
Crystalline surfaces for momentum-resolved experiments
Perovskite-based tandem solar cells
Applications beyond solar cells
Perovskite materials for light emission
CURRENT CHALLENGES
Measurement protocol
Proposed measurement procedures
Reproducibility
Ion migration
Stability
Current and future challenges in this area
Corrosion of contacts
Replacement of toxic lead
State of the art
Data-driven prediction of novel hybrid perovskites
Findings

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