Surface Charge Trapping in Organolead Halide Perovskites Explored by Single-Particle Photoluminescence Imaging

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3195-3201

  Tachikawa, Takashi ^a,b   Karimata, Izuru ^a   Kobori, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRAPPING; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

CONVENTIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUENCHING; SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PASSIVATION;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84939790969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01566     Document Type: Article

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