Thermal assisted oxygen annealing for high efficiency planar CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ren, Zhiwei ^a   Ng, Annie ^a   Shen, Qian ^a   Gokkaya, Huseyin Cem ^a   Wang, Jingchuan ^a   Yang, Lijun ^a   Yiu, Wai Kin ^b   Bai, Gongxun ^a   Djurišić, Aleksandra B ^b   Leung, Wallace Woon Fong ^a   Hao, Jianhua ^a   Chan, Wai Kin ^b   Surya, Charles ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84919952102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06752     Document Type: Article

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