Crystal morphologies of organolead trihalide in mesoscopic/planar perovskite solar cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2292-2297

  Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a   Vasiliev, Alexander L ^a,d   Wu, Wenwen ^a   Yang, Mengjin ^b   Pang, Shuping ^c   Zhu, Kai ^b   Padture, Nitin P ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Russian Research Centre of Surgery   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

focused ion beam; HRTEM; morphology; transmission electron microscopy; XRD

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION BEAMS; MORPHOLOGY; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CONVENTIONAL TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION TEM; HRTEM; QUANTITATIVE X RAY DIFFRACTION; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; XRD;

SOLAR CELLS;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; METHYLAMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; METHYLAMINES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84935033399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00981     Document Type: Article

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