Inorganic hole conducting layers for perovskite-based solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1748-1753

  Subbiah, Anand S ^a   Halder, Ansuman ^a   Ghosh, Soham ^a   Mahuli, Neha ^a   Hodes, Gary ^b   Sarkar, Shaibal K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

CuSCN; Inorganic hole conductor; NiO; Perovskite solar cell

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODEPOSITION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SOLAR CELLS;

CUSCN; HOLE CONDUCTOR; HOLE-CONDUCTING LAYERS; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; NIO; ORGANIC HOLE CONDUCTORS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84901009664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500645n     Document Type: Article

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