Inorganic hole conductor-based lead halide perovskite solar cells with 12.4% conversion efficiency

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Qin, Peng ^a   Tanaka, Soichiro ^b   Ito, Seigo ^b   Tetreault, Nicolas ^a   Manabe, Kyohei ^c   Nishino, Hitoshi ^c   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja ^a   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^c OSAKA GAS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HALIDE; IODIDE; LEAD; PEROVSKITE; THIOCYANATE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL; HALIDE; IODIDE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ILLUMINATION; INORGANIC HOLE CONDUCTOR; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84900398499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4834     Document Type: Article

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