Giant switchable photovoltaic effect in organometal trihalide perovskite devices

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 193-197

  Xiao, Zhengguo ^a,b   Yuan, Yongbo ^a,b   Shao, Yuchuan ^a,b   Wang, Qi ^a,b   Dong, Qingfeng ^a,b   Bi, Cheng ^a,b   Sharma, Pankaj ^b   Gruverman, Alexei ^b   Huang, Jinsong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ABUNDANT MATERIALS; ONE-SUN ILLUMINATION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PEROVSKITE LAYERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SOLAR CELL DESIGN; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; VERTICAL ARCHITECTURES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84923325859     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4150     Document Type: Article

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