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Radiation effects on the performance of flexible perovskite solar cells for space applications

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Solar cells for space applications are required to be tolerant to harsh environmental conditions. Especially, tolerance against radiation and charged particles is mandatory. Here we study the effect of low-energy (<< 1 MeV) proton radiation to evaluate the radiation tolerance of flexible perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Low-energy protons are more likely to be stopped in the shallower regions of solar cells, thereby causing greater performance degradation than high-energy protons. Flexible PSCs with layer sequence PET/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/perovskite/PCBM/BCP/metal were fabricated and were irradiated with 100 keV protons (fluence from ~ 3 × 1010 to ~ 3 × 1012 protons/cm2, equating several years in space). Flexible PSCs exhibited a good radiation tolerance and did not show color center formation, revealing their outstanding resistance against low-energy proton radiation. This can be credited to the combined effect of intrinsically large carrier diffusion length exceeding the thin absorber film thickness and the defect tolerance of perovskite crystals.

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We are grateful to Wroclaw Technology Park for their support.

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Project co-financed from European Regional Development Fund within the Smart Growth Operational Program under Priority I: Support for conducting R&D works by enterprises, Submeasure 1.1.1, “Fast track” SMEs. The program implementing agency is the National Centre for Research and Development (grant agreement no. POIR.01.01.01-00-0090/15-00).

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    Olga Malinkiewicz, Subarna B. Sapkota & Senol Öz

  2. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan

    Mitsuru Imaizumi

  3. National Institute for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Takasaki, Japan

    Takeshi Ohshima

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Malinkiewicz, O., Imaizumi, M., Sapkota, S.B. et al. Radiation effects on the performance of flexible perovskite solar cells for space applications. emergent mater. 3, 9–14 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-020-00071-8

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