Open AccessRelative straggle of sputtering parameters as a potential measure of power conversion efficiency of Perovskite materials
Author(s) -
Oluwole E. Oyewande,
O.E. Hikon,
S.O. Aisida,
Ahzegbobor P. Aizebeokhai
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/993/1/012009
Subject(s) - sputtering , perovskite (structure) , energy conversion efficiency , materials science , ion , monte carlo method , range (aeronautics) , measure (data warehouse) , computational physics , thin film , optoelectronics , chemistry , nanotechnology , physics , computer science , composite material , mathematics , statistics , organic chemistry , crystallography , database
The growing demand for electricity necessitates the development of time-efficient computational methods in search of better solar energy-harvesting materials. One challenge has been ways to improve the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of potential harvesters.In this paper, an ion sputtering approach was used to study the problem of estimation of the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perovskite solar device materials through their surface sputtering signatures. This rests on a hypothesis that the similarity between the phenomenon of photon excitation from light-sensitive absorbers, leading to electricity generation, and ejection of energetic particles from sputtered surfaces, could be exploited to estimate PCE. Hence, a Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of the sputtering of surfaces of perovskite materials with energetic ions was performed; and a number of quantities that could be used for the estimation of PCE were calculated. The results indicated that the relative straggle of surface sputtering parameters of the materials could be an effective measure of the theoretical maximum power conversion efficiencies of these materials. In particular, the relative straggle of the projected range of the ions in the respective materials was found to be close to reported experimental results of PCEs in the literature.