Elucidating transport-recombination mechanisms in perovskite solar cells by small-perturbation techniques

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 22913-22922

  Guillén, Elena ^a   Ramos, F Javier ^a   Anta, Juan A ^b   Ahmad, Shahzada ^a  

^a ABENGOA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS;

EID: 84908140606     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5069076     Document Type: Article

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