Anomalous alloy properties in mixed halide perovskites

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3625-3631

  Yin, Wan Jian ^a,b   Yan, Yanfa ^b   Wei, Su Huai ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HALOGEN ELEMENTS; PEROVSKITE; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS;

BAND GAP BOWING PARAMETER; CLUSTER EXPANSION METHOD; ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; FORMATION ENERGIES; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; HIGH TEMPERATURE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84908626587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz501896w     Document Type: Article

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