Light harvesting and charge recombination in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells studied by hole transport layer thickness variation

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4200-4209

  Marinova, Nevena ^a,b   Tress, Wolfgang ^a   Humphry Baker, Robin ^a   Dar, M Ibrahim ^a   Bojinov, Vladimir ^b,c   Zakeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed ^a   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja ^a,d   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY AND METALLURGY   (Bulgaria)

^c Chemistry Department   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

charge recombination; electroluminescence; ideality factor; light harvesting; mesoscopic solar cell; spiro MeOTAD

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; HOLE MOBILITY; LIGHT; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PEROVSKITE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CHARGE RECOMBINATIONS; IDEALITY FACTORS; LIGHT-HARVESTING; MESOSCOPICS; SPIRO-MEOTAD;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84928963496     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00447     Document Type: Article

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