Towards printed perovskite solar cells with cuprous oxide hole transporting layers: A theoretical design

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Yan ^a   Xia, Zhonggao ^a   Liang, Jun ^a   Wang, Xinwei ^a   Liu, Yiming ^b   Liu, Chuan ^c,d   Zhang, Shengdong ^a   Zhou, Hang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SYSU CMU Shunde International Joint Research Institute   (China)

Author keywords

cuprous oxide; inorganic HTM; perovskite solar cell

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; DEFECTS; HOLE MOBILITY; PEROVSKITE; PRINTING;

CUPROUS OXIDE; DOPING CONCENTRATION; HOLE TRANSPORTING LAYERS; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; INORGANIC HTM; METAL OXIDE MATERIALS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE; SOLAR CELL SIMULATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84928780243     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/30/5/054004     Document Type: Article

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