Organic - Inorganic hybrid lead iodide perovskite featuring zero dipole moment guanidinium cations: A theoretical analysis

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 4694-4701

  Giorgi, Giacomo ^a,b   Fujisawa, Jun Ichi ^b,c   Segawa, Hiroshi ^c   Yamashita, Koichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIPOLE MOMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; HYSTERESIS; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; POSITIVE IONS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; GUANIDINIUM CATIONS; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PERMANENT DIPOLES; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; TOLERANCE FACTOR;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84924141046     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00051     Document Type: Article

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