Efficiency Enhancement of Inverted Structure Perovskite Solar Cells via Oleamide Doping of PCBM Electron Transport Layer

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 13659-13665

  Xia, Fei ^a   Wu, Qiliang ^a   Zhou, Pengcheng ^a   Li, Yi ^b   Chen, Xiang ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Zhu, Jun ^b   Dai, Songyuan ^b,c   Lu, Yalin ^a   Yang, Shangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electron transport layer; interface; oleamide; PCBM; perovskite solar cells

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PEROVSKITE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

AMPHIPHILIC SURFACTANTS; EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; OLEAMIDE; PCBM; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 84932642060     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03525     Document Type: Article

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