Substantial improvement of perovskite solar cells stability by pinhole-free hole transport layer with doping engineering

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jung, Min Cherl ^a   Raga, Sonia R ^a   Ono, Luis K ^a   Qi, Yabing ^a  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84929587316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09863     Document Type: Article

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