A How Can You Identify Perovskite in Solar Cells Without Advanced Lab Techniques?

[Ananya2018]

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perovskite is a new field of research due to it's high efficiency, but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment like AFM,NMR,ESR,EPR, XRD

perovskite is a new field of research due to it's high efficiency in power conversion in solar cell, but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment like AFM,NMR,ESR,EPR, XRD. It has a structure of ABX_3. where A,B are cation, X is anion. B are placed in corner of cubic crystal and X are placed in octahedral position of B and A are present in the cavity of crystal. One can google more for knowing property and structure

 

[Vanadium 50]

Summary: perovskite is a new field of research due to it's high efficiency, but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment like AFM,NMR,ESR,EPR, XRD

perovskite is a new field of research

Thought it was a mineral.

 

[Baluncore]

Thought it was a mineral.

A perovskite is any material with a crystal structure following the formula ABX₃, which was first discovered as the mineral called perovskite, which consists of calcium titanium oxide (CaTiO₃)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite_(structure)#Applications

 

[Baluncore]

Welcome to PF.

... but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment ...

The lowest tech method would be to examine the material under a petrographic microscope.
Consider also XRF to identify the chemistry, or powder x-ray diffraction to confirm the structure.

 

[berkeman]

Summary: perovskite is a new field of research due to it's high efficiency, but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment like AFM,NMR,ESR,EPR, XRD

perovskite is a new field of research due to it's high efficiency in power conversion in solar cell, but how you verify a given material is perovskite without doing complex lab experiment like AFM,NMR,ESR,EPR, XRD. It has a structure of ABX_3. where A,B are cation, X is anion. B are placed in corner of cubic crystal and X are placed in octahedral position of B and A are present in the cavity of crystal. One can google more for knowing property and structure

Can you say more about why you are asking this question? Are you mining it and want to be sure of the purity so you can set your selling price? Or are you buying it for some purpose and similarly want to determine the purity to be sure you are comfortable with the selling price?

 

[f95toli]

I suspect the OP is referring the group of oxide material with a perovskite structure, rather than the actual mineral.
Perovskites were a hot topic for research back in the day since most high temperature superconductors have a perovskite structure (most famously YBCO).
In recent years solar cells made from perovskite have turned out to be very efficient, meaning this class of material is now back in the limelight,. I suspect it is the latter the OP has been reading about.
Also, mostly this refers to perovskite thin-films; not bulk materials.

The standard method for checking the structure of a perovskite film (as used for e.g. PVs) would be XRD; all other methods that I know of are more complicated (e.g. TEM). I seriously doubt there is a cheap way to check the structure,