Small photocarrier effective masses featuring ambipolar transport in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite: A density functional analysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 4213-4216

  Giorgi, Giacomo ^a,b   Fujisawa, Jun Ichi ^a,c   Segawa, Hiroshi ^a   Yamashita, Koichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

density functional theory; effective masses of the carriers; lead halide perovskites; spin orbit coupling

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; EFFECTIVE MASS; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING EFFECTS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PHOTOELECTRICITY;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84890921367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz4023865     Document Type: Article

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