Carbon-coated Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots and Copper(I)Iodide Coated Copper Nanowire Electrodes for Flexible Solar Cells

Sammanfattning: Lead Halide Perovskite is emerging quickly as a promising material for the future solar cellsthanks to their inherent good optoelectrical properties along with their cheap and facile fabri-cation. However, their main drawback before commercialization is their weak stability. In thiswork, a novel carbon-coated perovskite quantum dot has been synthesized, and is to the extentof our knowledge, for the first time. The coated perovskite quantum dots show a remarkable in-creased stability under different conditions while in solution. Their photoluminescence intensityalso increased as time went on, exceeding that of the uncoated perovskite quantum dots aftera few weeks. These coated perovskite quantum dots, while not fully characterized and thusnot fully understood show a promising way on how to combat the low stability in perovskites.Further, Copper/Copper(I)Iodide core/shell nanowires were synthesized as a transparent inte-grated hole transport layer/electrode for solar cells. While limited due to the low controlledfabrication process used, they providing a solid base for further research on the material to beused in solar cells.