Methylammonium fragmentation in amines as source of localized trap levels and the healing role of Cl in hybrid lead-iodide perovskites

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Delugas, Pietro ^a,b   Filippetti, Alessio ^b   Mattoni, Alessandro ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

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EID: 84937926465     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.045301     Document Type: Article

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