@phdthesis{Kiermasch2020, author = {Kiermasch, David}, title = {Charge Carrier Recombination Dynamics in Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells}, doi = {10.25972/OPUS-20862}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-208629}, school = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In order to facilitate the human energy needs with renewable energy sources in the future, new concepts and ideas for the electricity generation are needed. Solar cells based on metal halide perovskite semiconductors represent a promising approach to address these demands in both single-junction and tandem configurations with existing silicon technology. Despite intensive research, however, many physical properties and the working principle of perovskite PVs are still not fully understood. In particular, charge carrier recombination losses have so far mostly been studied on pure films not embedded in a complete solar cell. This thesis aimed for the identification and quantification of charge carrier recombination dynamics in fully working devices under conditions corresponding to those under real operation. To study different PV systems, transient electrical methods, more precisely Open-Circuit Voltage Decay (OCVD), Transient Photovoltage (TPV) and Charge Extraction (CE), were applied. Whereas OCVD and TPV provide information about the recombination lifetime, CE allows to access the charge carrier density at a specific illumination intensity. The benefit of combining these different methods is that the obtained quantities can not only be related to the Voc but also to each other, thus enabling to determine also the dominant recombination mechanisms.The aim of this thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of recombination losses in fully working perovskite solar cells and the experimental techniques which are applied to determine these losses.}, subject = {Solarzelle}, language = {en} }