Halide-Dependent Electronic Structure of Organolead Perovskite Materials

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4405-4412

  Buin, Andrei ^a   Comin, Riccardo ^a   Xu, Jixian ^a   Ip, Alexander H ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; DIMERS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENTHALPY; STABILITY;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; POLYCRYSTALLINE PEROVSKITE; REACTION ENTHALPIES; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84934918943     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01909     Document Type: Article

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