Abstract

Metal halide perovskites have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental research in recent years due to their huge potential over their silicon based counterparts for tunable optoelectronic applications in high-tech device innovation. The current best perovskite for solar cell applications, with a power conversion efficiency of 22%, methyl ammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3), is toxic due to the presence of lead and is therefore harmful in solar cell applications despite its low concentration in solar cells. Hence, research exploits are geared towards perovskites without lead. Unfortunately, this has taken back the gains in PCEs by about 15%, and a lot is being done for improvement. In this paper, we performed molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations of ion-beam sputtering of lead and tin perovskites to determine differences between the sputtering characteristics of lead perovskite and a lead-substituted perovskite (tin perovskite). Our results show that they both exhibit similar sputtering characteristics of linear projected ion range, and maximum yield around 78° ion incidence.

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Title
Projected Range and Sputter Yield of Ne+ and Ar+ in the Sputtering of Lead and Tin Perovskites
Author
Oyewande, Oluwole E 1 ; Akinpelu, Akinwumi 2 

 Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria; Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 
 Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria 
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Jul 2018
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17551307
e-ISSN
17551315
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2559508602
Copyright
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