Vacuum-assisted thermal annealing of CH3NH3PbI3 for highly stable and efficient perovskite solar cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 639-646

  Xie, Feng Xian ^a   Zhang, Di ^a   Su, Huimin ^b   Ren, Xingang ^a   Wong, Kam Sing ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^c   Choy, Wallace C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CH3NH3Cl; crystallization process; morphology; perovskite solar cell; vacuum assisted thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; MORPHOLOGY; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; ENHANCED STABILITY; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOLAR CELL DEVICES; STANDARD DEVIATION; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84921761305     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn505978r     Document Type: Article

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