Best practices in perovskite solar cell efficiency measurements. Avoiding the error of Making Bad Cells Look Good

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 852-857

  Christians, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Manser, Joseph S ^a,b   Kamat, Prashant V ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 84929151695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00289     Document Type: Review

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