Exploring Thermochromic Behavior of Hydrated Hybrid Perovskites in Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3180-3184

  Halder, Ansuman ^a   Choudhury, Devika ^a   Ghosh, Soham ^a   Subbiah, Anand S ^a   Sarkar, Shaibal K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SOLAR ABSORBERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; IN-SITU X-RAY DIFFRACTION; MOISTURE ABSORPTION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; STANDARD TEST CONDITION (STC); TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THERMOCHROMIC BEHAVIOR; THERMOCHROMIC PROPERTIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84939789781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01426     Document Type: Article

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