High-quality bulk hybrid perovskite single crystals within minutes by inverse temperature crystallization

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Saidaminov, Makhsud I ^a   Abdelhady, Ahmed L ^a,b   Murali, Banavoth ^a   Alarousu, Erkki ^a   Burlakov, Victor M ^c   Peng, Wei ^a   Dursun, Ibrahim ^a   Wang, Lingfei ^a   He, Yao ^a   MacUlan, Giacomo ^a   Goriely, Alain ^c   Wu, Tom ^a   Mohammed, Omar F ^a   Bakr, Osman M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; METHYLAMMONIUM; PEROVSKITE; SOLVENT;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON DENSITY; PEROVSKITE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84936072372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8586     Document Type: Article

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