Facile preparation of organometallic perovskite films and high-efficiency solar cells using solid-state chemistry

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 263-270

  Chen, Lei ^a,b   Tang, Feng ^b   Wang, Yixin ^b,c   Gao, Shan ^b   Cao, Weiguo ^a   Cai, Jinhua ^b   Chen, Liwei ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

flexible substrates; perovskite solar cells; planar heterojunction; solid state chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925514181     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0662-1     Document Type: Article

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