Vertical TiO2 Nanorods as a Medium for Stable and High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Modules

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8420-8429

  Fakharuddin, Azhar ^a,b   Di Giacomo, Francesco ^b   Palma, Alessandro L ^b   Matteocci, Fabio ^b   Ahmed, Irfan ^a   Razza, Stefano ^b   D'Epifanio, Alessandra ^b   Licoccia, Silvia ^b   Ismail, Jamil ^a   Di Carlo, Aldo ^b   Brown, Thomas M ^b   Jose, Rajan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy conversion; nanorod solar cells; photovoltaic; stable solar module

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANORODS; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; LARGE AREA MODULE; MODULE FABRICATION; OPERATIONAL STABILITY; OPTIMIZED LASER PULSE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLAR MODULE;

SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

EID: 84940092763     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03265     Document Type: Article

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