Effect of different hole transport materials on recombination in CH 3NH3PbI3 perovskite-sensitized mesoscopic solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1532-1536

  Bi, Dongqin ^a   Yang, Lei ^a   Boschloo, Gerrit ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^a   Johansson, Erik M J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

(CH3NH3)PbI3; HTM; P3HT; perovskite; solid state solar cell; spiro OMeTAD; TiO2

Indexed keywords

(CH3NH3)PBI3; HTM; P3HT; SOLID STATE SOLAR CELLS; SPIRO-OMETAD; TIO;

SOLAR CELLS;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84877102255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz400638x     Document Type: Article

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