Benefit of grain boundaries in organic-inorganic halide planar perovskite solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 875-880

  Yun, Jae S ^a   Ho Baillie, Anita ^a   Huang, Shujuan ^a   Woo, Sang H ^a   Heo, Yooun ^b   Seidel, Jan ^b   Huang, Fuzhi ^c   Cheng, Yi Bing ^c   Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

grain boundaries; heterojunction solar cell; local current mapping; perovskite; scanning probe microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS; PEROVSKITE; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

CHARGE SEPARATIONS; CURRENT MAPPING; HETEROJUNCTION SOLAR CELLS; HETEROJUNCTION STRUCTURES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN FILM; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84929001863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00182     Document Type: Article

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