Comparative study of vapor- and solution-crystallized perovskite for planar heterojunction solar cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3382-3388

  Du, Tian ^a,c   Wang, Nin ^a   Chen, Haijun ^a   Lin, Hong ^b   He, Hongcai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crystallization; organometal halide; perovskite; photovoltaic performance; solar cells

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MORPHOLOGY; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CRYSTALLIZATION CONDITIONS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84922790581     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am508495r     Document Type: Article

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