Facile Synthesis and High Performance of a New Carbazole-Based Hole-Transporting Material for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 849-855

  Wang, Hong ^a   Sheikh, Arif D ^a   Feng, Quanyou ^b,c   Li, Feng ^a   Chen, Yin ^a   Yu, Weili ^a   Alarousu, Erkki ^a   Ma, Chun ^a   Haque, Md Azimul ^a   Shi, Dong ^a   Wang, Zhong Sheng ^b   Mohammed, Omar F ^a   Bakr, Osman M ^a   Wu, Tom ^a  

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

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

carbazole; hole mobility; hole transporting material; perovskite solar cell

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COSTS; HOLE MOBILITY; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

CARBAZOLE; FACILE SYNTHESIS; HOLE-TRANSPORTING MATERIALS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC INDUSTRY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SPIROBIFLUORENE; STATE OF THE ART;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84937031055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00283     Document Type: Article

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