Atmospheric effects on the photovoltaic performance of hybrid perovskite solar cells

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 6-14

  Sheikh, Arif D ^a   Bera, Ashok ^a   Haque, Md Azimul ^a   Rakhi, Raghavan B ^a   Del Gobbo, Silvano ^a   Alshareef, Husam N ^a   Wu, Tom ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Organometal halide; Perovskite; Solar cell; spiro MeOTAD

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; HOLE MOBILITY; INFRARED DRYING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ABSORPTION AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC CHARACTERISTICS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; INCIDENT PHOTON-TO-CURRENT CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; SPIRO-MEOTAD;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922388134     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.01.023     Document Type: Article

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