Controlled Humidity Study on the Formation of Higher Efficiency Formamidinium Lead Triiodide-Based Solar Cells

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 4814-4820

  Wozny, Sarah ^a   Yang, Mengjin ^b   Nardes, Alexandre M ^b   Mercado, Candy C ^c   Ferrere, Suzanne ^b   Reese, Matthew O ^b   Zhou, Weilie ^a   Zhu, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LIFETIME; CELL ENGINEERING; EFFICIENCY; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS;

CONTROLLED HUMIDITIES; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FILM CRYSTALLINITY; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; INHOMOGENEOUS FILMS; LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SOLVENT ENGINEERING;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 84937060558     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01691     Document Type: Article

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