Interfacial charge transfer anisotropy in polycrystalline lead iodide perovskite films

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1396-1402

  Yin, Jun ^a   Cortecchia, Daniele ^b,c   Krishna, Anurag ^b   Chen, Shi ^a   Mathews, Nripan ^c   Grimsdale, Andrew C ^c,d   Soci, Cesare ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

charge transfer anisotropy; density functional theory; interfacial energetics; lead iodide perovskite

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CALCULATIONS; CHARGE TRANSFER; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; IODINE COMPOUNDS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; CHARGE TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INTERFACIAL CHARGE TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL ENERGETICS; LEAD IODIDE; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84927928182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00431     Document Type: Article

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