Unraveling the effect of PbI2 concentration on charge recombination kinetics in perovskite solar cells

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 589-594

  Bi, Dongqin ^a   El Zohry, Ahmed M ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^a,b   Boschloo, Gerrit ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

CH3NH3PbI3; emission lifetime; hybrid photovoltaics; recombination

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; EXTRACTION; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

CH3NH3PBI3; CHARGE RECOMBINATION KINETICS; EMISSION LIFETIME; HYBRID PHOTOVOLTAICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE EXTRACTION; RECOMBINATION; SOLAR CELL PERFORMANCE;

LEAD COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84930226769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500255t     Document Type: Article

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