Publication date: 9th July 2025
Mobile ions are a key contributor to the degradation and instability of metal halide perovskite solar cells. Accurately quantifying their properties—such as density, mobility, and activation energy—is essential for understanding and mitigating their impact on device performance. While electrical techniques like impedance spectroscopy, fast current-voltage scans, and transient measurements are commonly used for this purpose, their interpretation often relies on assumptions about the device, and they always measure the whole stack at once. As a result, reported values for ion-related parameters vary widely across the literature.
In this talk, I will highlight the limitations of relying on individual electrical techniques and demonstrate how a combined approach—integrating multiple electrical measurements with drift-diffusion simulations—provides a more reliable and comprehensive picture of mobile ion behavior. Additionally, I will introduce a complementary optical method that enables the quantification of ion migration in perovskite layers before contact deposition, offering new opportunities for studying ion dynamics in half-stacks and individual films.