Ultrasmooth organic-inorganic perovskite thin-film formation and crystallization for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Saliba, Michael ^a   Moore, David T ^b   Pathak, Sandeep K ^a   Hörantner, Maximilian T ^a   Stergiopoulos, Thomas ^a   Stranks, Samuel D ^a   Eperon, Giles E ^a   Alexander Webber, Jack A ^a   Abate, Antonio ^a   Sadhanala, Aditya ^c   Yao, Shuhua ^d   Chen, Yulin ^a   Friend, Richard H ^c   Estroff, Lara A ^b   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODIDE; LEAD ACETATE; LEAD CHLORIDE; PEROVSKITE; CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; TITANIUM;

CHLORIDE; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FILM; FUEL CELL; INORGANIC COMPOUND; IODIDE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEROVSKITE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVOLUTION; FILM; FILM COATING; KINETICS; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; OXIDES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84923264757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7142     Document Type: Article

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