Publication date: 5th November 2025
In this presentation, we highlight recent advances in Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) of metal halide perovskites (MHPs).
We discuss our strategy enabling compositional flexibility, ranging from inorganic to hybrid compounds, as well as polymorph control. These include the transition from polycrystalline to epitaxial monocrystalline layers, the development of 2D/3D heterostructures, and the fabrication of porous scaffolds for hybrid vapor-vapor or vapor-solution growth of wide band gap MHPs.
We draw synthesis, properties, functionality correlations, via the complete characterization of materials and solar cell devices. Our PLD-grown MHPs delivering power conversion efficiencies above 15% as deposited and 19.5% after passivation. We furthermore address the challenges of PLD and present approaches for scaling up this method.
Furthermore, we explore how insights gained from PLD can be transferred to more industry-standard techniques such as sputtering deposition.
