Perovskites: Transforming photovoltaics, a mini-review

Journal of Photonics for Energy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chilvery, Ashwith Kumar ^a,b   Batra, Ashok K ^b   Yang, Bin ^c   Xiao, Kai ^c   Guggilla, Padmaja ^b   Aggarwal, Mohan D ^b   Surabhi, Raja ^b   Lal, Ravi B ^b   Currie, James R ^d   Penn, Benjamin G ^d  

^a TALLADEGA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Physics Department   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge transport; Dielectric; Efficiency; Perovskites; Photovoltaics

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; FABRICATION METHOD; PEROVSKITE STRUCTURES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PV APPLICATIONS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84920828721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19477988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.5.057402     Document Type: Article

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