Low-temperature sputtered nickel oxide compact thin film as effective electron blocking layer for mesoscopic NiO/CH3NH3PbI 3 perovskite heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 11851-11858

  Wang, Kuo Chin ^a   Shen, Po Shen ^a   Li, Ming Hsien ^a   Chen, Shi ^a   Lin, Ming Wei ^b   Chen, Peter ^a   Guo, Tzung Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

low temperature process; mesoscopic heterojunction; NiOx thin film; pervoskite solar cell; sputtering

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SPUTTERING; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TEMPERATURE;

EFFECTIVE ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; LOW- TEMPERATURE PROCESS; MESOSCOPICS; PERVOSKITES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84906213929     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am503610u     Document Type: Article

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