Self-alignment of the methylammonium cations in thin-film organometal perovskites

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2863-2867

  McLeod, John A ^a   Wu, Zhongwei ^a   Shen, Pengfei ^a   Sun, Baoquan ^a   Liu, Lijia ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

crystal field theory; density functional theory; organometallic halide perovskites; self alignment; X ray absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRYSTAL FIELD MODELING; CRYSTAL FIELD THEORY; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; METHYLAMMONIUM CATIONS; SELF ALIGNMENT; SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES; TWO-STEP DEPOSITION;

DEPOSITION;

EID: 84906484752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501472d     Document Type: Article

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