Nucleation and crystal growth of organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites under different relative humidity

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 9110-9117

  Gao, Hao ^a,b   Bao, Chunxiong ^a   Li, Faming ^a   Yu, Tao ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Zhu, Weidong ^a   Zhou, Xiaoxin ^a   Fu, Gao ^a   Zou, Zhigang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINGDEZHEN CERAMIC INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Ambient humidity; Crystal growth; Film coverage; Methylammonium lead trihalide; Nucleation density

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COATINGS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; HUMIDITY CONTROL; NUCLEATION; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SPIN COATING; SUPERSATURATION;

AMBIENT HUMIDITY; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FILM COVERAGE; HIGH NUCLEATION DENSITY; LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; METHYLAMMONIUM LEAD TRIHALIDE; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; PERFORMANCE OF DEVICES;

FILM GROWTH;

EID: 84928974406     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b00895     Document Type: Article

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