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Chalcogenide Perovskite BaZrS3: Thin Film Growth by Sputtering and Rapid Thermal Processing

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posted on 2020-02-21, 17:39 authored by Corrado Comparotto, Alexandra Davydova, Tove Ericson, Lars Riekehr, Marcos V. Moro, Tomas Kubart, Jonathan Scragg
Tandem solar cells based on hybrid organic–inorganic metal halide perovskites have reached efficiencies up to 28%, but major concerns for long-term stability and the presence of Pb have raised interest in searching for fully earth-abundant, intrinsic chemically stable, and nontoxic alternatives. With a direct band gap around 1.8 eV and stability in air up to at least 500 °C, BaZrS3 is a promising candidate. This work presents the first approach of synthesizing a thin film of such compound by sputtering at ambient temperature with a subsequent rapid thermal process. Despite the short fabrication time, the width of the XRD diffraction peaks and the energy and distribution of the photoluminescence response show comparable crystalline quality to that from bulk synthesis methods. Good crystallization required around 900 °C. Such a high temperature could be incompatible with fabrication of tandem solar cells.

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