Ionic Diffusion Quantification in Lead Halide Perovskites
Antonio Guerrero a
a Institute of Advance Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, ES-12006 Castelló, Spain
Proceedings of International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (HOPV20)
Santa Fe, United States, 2025 September 8th - 10th
Organizers: test11 test11, test7 test7 and Organizer Two
Oral, Antonio Guerrero, presentation 003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.hopv.2025.003
Publication date: 13th February 2026

Lead halide perovskites have long been known to be ionic and electronic semiconductors.1, 2 Recently, lead halide perovskite have revolutionized the photovoltaics field with impressive efficiencies reaching ~23 %. Unlike most photoactive materials, ionic conductivity plays a key role in perovskites during photovoltaic device operation. In this presentation it is described how to characterize the ionic properties of lead halide perovskites by advanced electrical and optical techniques.3 Approaches to minimize the electronic contribution to the measured current are used so the ionic current can be probed. For example, Impedance Spectroscopy (IS)  reveals the characteristic signature of ionic diffusion in monocrystalline devices which do not contain HTL. This is the Warburg element and transmission line equivalent circuit in MAPbBr3 and ion accumulation at the MAPbBr3/Au interface typical for non-reactive contacts. Alternatively, measurements of confocal photoluminescence (PL) in interdigitated electrodes as a function of the applied bias reveals that the ionic movement dramatically modifies the PL emission properties that also allows the calculation of the diffusion coefficient of the material

We greatly thank financial support by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) under projects MAT2016-76892-C3-1-R, MAT2015-70850-P (HIBRI2), Ramón y Cajal Fellowship number RYC-2014-16809 and through Grant No. SEV-2015-0496 in the framework of the Spanish Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence (ICMAB).

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