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With this in mind Dr. Henk Bolink from the University of Valencia, in collaboration with researchers at IRDEP (Institute of Research and Development on Photovoltaic Energy, France), investigated the performance of hybrid organic–inorganic methylammonium lead iodide perovskites (CH3NH3PbI3) solar cells. CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite shows efficient photocurrent generation in addition to important photoluminescence, hence it is a great candidate for multi-functional devices [2]. In order to study the main properties of this cell, spectrally and spatially resolved photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) imaging was performed. To carry out such experiment, an hyperspectral imager (IMA™) with a 2 nm spectral resolution and a spatial resolution below 2 μm was used. A sourcemeter was employed for EL and the applied voltage ranged from 1.05 V to 1.2 V. A 532 nm laser (Genesis laser) was used for PL (excitation of ~30 suns) to illuminate the entire field of view under the microscope objective and the PL signal coming from millions of points was collected simultaneously (see global imaging modality section below for more details).
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