Efficient inorganic-organic hybrid heterojunction solar cells containing perovskite compound and polymeric hole conductors

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 486-491

  Heo, Jin Hyuck ^a   Im, Sang Hyuk ^a,b   Noh, Jun Hong ^a   Mandal, Tarak N ^a   Lim, Choong Sun ^a   Chang, Jeong Ah ^a   Lee, Yong Hui ^a   Kim, Hi Jung ^a   Sarkar, Arpita ^a   Nazeeruddin, Md K ^c   Grätzel, Michael ^c   Seok, Sang Il ^a,d  

^a Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID; INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID STRUCTURES; PEROVSKITE COMPOUNDS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84878745339     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.80     Document Type: Article

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