Jared Crochet

TL;DR: A solution-based hot-casting technique is demonstrated to grow continuous, pinhole-free thin films of organometallic perovskites with millimeter-scale crystalline grains that are applicable to several other material systems plagued by polydispersity, defects, and grain boundary recombination in solution-processed thin films.

TL;DR: Thin films of near-single-crystalline quality are produced, in which the crystallographic planes of the inorganic perovskite component have a strongly preferential out-of-plane alignment with respect to the contacts in planar solar cells to facilitate efficient charge transport.

TL;DR: It is shown that the slow photocurrent degradation in thin-film photovoltaic devices is due to the formation of light-activated meta-stable deep-level trap states, and the creation of small polaronic states involving localized cooperative lattice strain and molecular orientations emerges as a credible microscopic mechanism requiring further detailed studies.

TL;DR: A general scaling law is proposed to determine the binding energy of excitons in perovskite quantum wells of any layer thickness to solve the fundamental questions concerning the nature of optical resonances and their scaling with quantum well thickness.

TL;DR: An in-depth computational study of small polaron formation, electronic structure, charge density, and reorganization energies using both periodic boundary conditions and isolated structures suggests formamidinium and cesium based crystals and alloys are potentially better materials for solar cell and other optoelectronic applications.