title: Enhancing photoluminescence yields in lead halide perovskites by photon recycling and light out-coupling.
abstract: In lead halide perovskite solar cells, there is at least one recycling event of electron-hole pair to photon to electron-hole pair at open circuit under solar illumination. This can lead to a significant reduction in the external photoluminescence yield from the internal yield. Here we show that, for an internal yield of 70%, we measure external yields as low as 15% in planar films, where light out-coupling is inefficient, but observe values as high as 57% in films on textured substrates that enhance out-coupling. We analyse in detail how externally measured rate constants and photoluminescence efficiencies relate to internal recombination processes under photon recycling. For this, we study the photo-excited carrier dynamics and use a rate equation to relate radiative and non-radiative recombination events to measured photoluminescence efficiencies. We conclude that the use of textured active layers has the ability to improve power conversion efficiencies for both LEDs and solar cells.
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Johannes M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Richter
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Mojtaba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdi-Jalebi
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Aditya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sadhanala
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Maxim
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9390-3791
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tabachnyk
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Jasmine P H
authors.initials: JPH
authors.lastname: Rivett
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Luis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pazos-Outón
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Karl C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Gödel
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Price
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0771-3324
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Deschler
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Friend