Band filling with free charge carriers in organometal halide perovskites

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 737-743

  Manser, Joseph S ^a,c   Kamat, Prashant V ^a,b,c  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CHARGE ACCUMULATION; EXCITED-STATE PROPERTIES; FEMTOSECOND TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOGENERATED CARRIERS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; SECOND ORDER KINETICS;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84906948702     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.171     Document Type: Article

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