Perovskite-fullerene hybrid materials suppress hysteresis in planar diodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Xu, Jixian ^a   Buin, Andrei ^a   Ip, Alexander H ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^a   Comin, Riccardo ^a   Yuan, Mingjian ^a   Jeon, Seokmin ^b   Ning, Zhijun ^a   McDowell, Jeffrey J ^a   Kanjanaboos, Pongsakorn ^a   Sun, Jon Paul ^c   Lan, Xinzheng ^a   Quan, Li Na ^d   Kim, Dong Ha ^d   Hill, Ian G ^c   Maksymovych, Peter ^b   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FULLERENE; HALIDE; PEROVSKITE;

FUEL CELL; FULLERENE; HYSTERESIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEW RECORD; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR POWER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; EXTRACTION; HYSTERESIS; MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORY;

EID: 84929224444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8081     Document Type: Article

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