Heterojunction modification for highly efficient organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12701-12709

  Wojciechowski, Konrad ^a   Stranks, Samuel D ^a   Abate, Antonio ^a   Sadoughi, Golnaz ^a   Sadhanala, Aditya ^b   Kopidakis, Nikos ^c   Rumbles, Garry ^c   Li, Chang Zhi ^d   Friend, Richard H ^b   Jen, Alex K Y ^d   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

fullerene; microwave conductivity; passivation; perovskite; photothermal deflection spectroscopy; self Assembled monolayer; traps

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISPLAY DEVICES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FULLERENES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HYSTERESIS; MONOLAYERS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PASSIVATION; PEROVSKITE; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CURRENT-VOLTAGE RESPONSE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; MICROWAVE CONDUCTIVITY; PHOTOTHERMAL DEFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOVOLTAIC OPERATION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; TRAPS;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84919764186     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505723h     Document Type: Article

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