Shape evolution and single particle luminescence of organometal halide perovskite nanocrystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2948-2959

  Zhu, Feng ^a   Men, Long ^a,b   Guo, Yijun ^a   Zhu, Qiaochu ^a   Bhattacharjee, Ujjal ^a,b   Goodwin, Peter M ^c   Petrich, Jacob W ^a,b   Smith, Emily A ^a,b   Vela, Javier ^a,b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

morphology control; nanocrystals; organometal halide perovskites; preferred orientation; single particle photoluminescence; size control

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; NANORODS; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES (OLED); ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOPHYSICS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

HALIDE PEROVSKITES; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SIZE CONTROL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84925639667     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn507020s     Document Type: Article

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