The electronic structure of metal oxide/organo metal halide perovskite junctions in perovskite based solar cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dymshits, Alex ^a   Henning, Alex ^b   Segev, Gideon ^b   Rosenwaks, Yossi ^b   Etgar, Lioz ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84924674618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08704     Document Type: Article

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