Exciton Binding Energy and the Nature of Emissive States in Organometal Halide Perovskites

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 2969-2975

  Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Zhu, Qiushi ^a   Abdellah, Mohamed ^a,b   Messing, Maria E ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Generalov, Alexander ^a   Niu, Yuran ^a   Ribaud, Lynn ^c   Canton, Sophie E ^d,e   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

exciton binding energy; fluorescence; nanoparticles; perovskites; photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; EMISSION INTENSITY; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS;

BINDING ENERGY;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; NANOPARTICLE; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

CHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; NANOPARTICLES; OXIDES; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTONS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84938693001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01252     Document Type: Article

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