Spatial and temporal imaging of long-range charge transport in perovskite thin films by ultrafast microscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guo, Zhi ^a   Manser, Joseph S ^a,b   Wan, Yan ^c   Kamat, Prashant V ^a,b,d   Huang, Libai ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEROVSKITE;

CRYSTALLINITY; FILM; IMAGING METHOD; PARTICLE MOTION; PEROVSKITE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; MICROSCOPY; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84934956954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8471     Document Type: Article

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