Publications by Year: 2017

2017
Tufan Ghosh, Sigalit Aharon, Etgar Lioz, and Sanford Ruhman. 12/5/2017. “Free carrier emergence and onset of electron-phononcoupling in methylammonium lead halide perovskite films.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 50, Pp. 18262–18270.
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Daniel Amgar, Małgorzata Wierzbowska, Vladimir Uvarov, Vitaly Gutkin, and Etgar Lioz. 10/23/2017. “Novel Rubidium lead chloride nanocrystals: Synthesis and characterization.” Nano Futures, 1, Pp. 021002.
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Stav Rahmany, Michael Layani, Shlomo Magdassi, and Etgar Lioz. 9/24/2017. “Fully functional semi-transparent perovskitesolar cell fabricated at ambient air.” Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2017,1, Pp. 2120-2127 .
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Ravi K. Misra, Bat-El Cohen, Lior Iagher, and Etgar Lioz. 8/28/2017. “Low-Dimensional Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite:Structure, Properties, and Applications.” ChemSusChem, 2017,10, Pp. 3712 – 3721.
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Bat-El Cohen, Malgorzata Wierzbowska, and Etgar Lioz. 8/10/2017. “High efficiency quasi 2D lead bromide perovskitesolar cells using various barrier molecules.” Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017,1, Pp. 1935–1943.
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Y. Huang, S. Aharon, A. Rolland, L. Pedesseau, O. Durand, L. Etgar, and J. Even. 5/19/2017. “Influence of Schottky contact on the C-V and J-V characteristicsof HTM-free perovskite solar cells.” EPJ Photovoltaics, 2017,8, Pp. 85501. Abstract

Abstract The influence of the Schottky contact is studied for hole transport material (HTM) free
CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells (PSCs), by using drift-diffusion and small signal models. The basic
current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristics are simulated in reasonable agreement with experimental
data. The build in potential of the finite CH3NH3PbI3 layer is extracted from a Mott-Schottky
capacitance analysis. Furthermore, hole collector conductors with work-functions of more than 5.5 eV are
proposed as solutions for high efficiency HTM-free CH3NH3PbI3 PSCs.

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Chongwen Li, Yuanyuan Zhou, Yue Chang Li Wang, Yingxia Zong, Etgar Lioz, Guanglei Cui, Nitin P. Padture, and Shuping Pang. 5/19/2017. “Methylammonium-Mediated Evolution of Mixed-Organic-CationPerovskite Thin Films: A Dynamic Composition-Tuning Process.” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017,56, Pp. 7674 –7678.
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Yue Chang, Li Wang, Jiliang Zhang, Zhongmin Zhou, Chongwen Li, Bingbing Chen, Etgar Lioz, Guanglei Cui, and Shuping Pang. 2/10/2017. “CH3NH2 gas induced (110) preferred cesiumcontainingperovskite films with reduced PbI6octahedron distortion and enhanced moisturestability.” J. Mater. Chem. A, 2017,5, Pp. 4803–4808. Abstract

We report here the discovery of a fancy interaction between cesium iodide (CsI) and methylamine (CH3NH2) due to the presence of the hydrogen bond. The formed CsI$xCH3NH2 is a liquid phase, which facilitates the large scale fabrication of highly uniform cesium-containing perovskite films with strong (110) preferred orientation by the CH3NH2 gas healing process. With this method, at most 10% nonpolar Cs cations could fully dope into the crystal lattice and extremely enhance the interaction of the inorganic framework with a more
symmetrical PbI6 octahedron, resulting in obvious improvement in moisture stability under continuous illumination.

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Bat-El Cohen, Małgorzata Wierzbowska, and Etgar Lioz. 2/3/2017. “High Efficiency and High Open Circuit Voltage in Quasi 2DPerovskite Based Solar Cells.” Advanced Functional Materials, 2017, Pp. 1604733. Abstract

An important property of hybrid layered perovskite is the possibility to reduce
its dimensionality to provide wider band gap and better stability. In this work,
2D perovskite of the structure (PEA)2(MA)n–1PbnBr3n+1 has been sensitized,
where PEA is phenyl ethyl-ammonium, MA is methyl-ammonium, and using
only bromide as the halide. The number of the perovskite layers has been
varied (n) from n = 1 through n = ∞. Optical and physical characterization
verify the layered structure and the increase in the band gap. The photovoltaic
performance shows higher open circuit voltage (Voc) for the quasi 2D perovskite
(i.e., n = 40, 50, 60) compared to the 3D perovskite. Voc of 1.3 V without
hole transport material (HTM) and Voc of 1.46 V using HTM have been
demonstrated, with corresponding efficiency of 6.3% and 8.5%, among the
highest reported. The lower mobility and transport in the quasi 2D perovskites
have been proved effective to gain high Voc with high efficiency, further
supported by ab initio calculations and charge extraction measurements. Bromide
is the only halide used in these quasi 2D perovskites, as mixing halides
have recently revealed instability of the perovskite structure. These quasi 2D
materials are promising candidates for use in optoelectronic applications that
simultaneously require high voltage and high efficiency.

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Daniel Amgar, Avigail Stern, Dvir Rotem, Danny Porath, and Etgar Lioz. 1/17/2017. “Tunable Length and Optical Properties of CsPbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I)Nanowires with a Few Unit Cells.” Nano Letters, 2017, 17, Pp. 1007−1013. Abstract

Perovskite nanostructures, both hybrid organo−metal
and fully inorganic perovskites, have gained a lot of interest in the past
few years for their intriguing optical properties in the visible region. We
report on inorganic cesium lead bromide (CsPbBr3) nanowires (NWs)
having quantum confined dimensions corresponding to 5 unit cells. The
addition of various hydrohalic acids (HX, X = Cl, Br, I) was found to
highly affect the NW length, composition, and optical properties.
Hydrochloric (HCl) and hydroiodic (HI) acids mixed in the reaction
solution influence the crystal structure and optical properties and
shorten the NWs, while the hydrobromic acid (HBr) addition results
solely in shorter NWs, without any structural change. The addition of HX increases the acidity of the reaction solution, resulting
in protonation of the oleylamine ligands from oleylamine into oleyl-ammonium cations that behave similarly to Cs+ during
crystallization. Therefore, the positions of the Cs+ at the growing surface of the NWs are taken by the oleyl-ammonium cations,
thus blocking further growth in the favored direction. The emission of the NWs is tunable between ∼423−505 nm and possesses
a potential in the optoelectronic field. Moreover, electrical conductivity measurements

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David P. Fenning, Mariana I. Bertoni, Yang Shao-Horn, Etgar Lioz, and Shany Gamliel. 2017. “Environmental sensors using metal halide perovskites.” United States of America Provisional application.
Etgar Lioz and Daniel Amgar. 2017. “Rubidium Lead Chloride Nanocrystals.” United States of America Provisional.
Etgar Lioz and Sigalit Aharon. 2017. “TWO DIMENSIONAL ORGANO-METAL HALIDE PEROVSKITENANORODS.” WIPO (World Intellectual Prop Org) WO 2017/153994 Al.