High-Performance, Air-Stable, Low-Temperature Processed Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposition

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5122-5130

  Chang, Chih Yu ^a   Lee, Kuan Ting ^a   Huang, Wen Kuan ^a   Siao, Hao Yi ^a   Chang, Yu Chia ^a  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DEPOSITION; ELECTRODES; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; PEROVSKITE; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE; ZINC OXIDE;

CATHODE BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORTING; ENCAPSULATION LAYER; HIGH POWER CONVERSION; INTERFACIAL PROPERTY; LOW DEPOSITION TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN TRANSMISSION RATES; VISIBLE TRANSMITTANCE;

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION;

EID: 84937846609     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01933     Document Type: Article

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