Photodecomposition and Morphology Evolution of Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 36, 2015, Pages 20810-20816

  Matsumoto, Fukashi ^a   Vorpahl, Sarah M ^b   Banks, Jannel Q ^b   Sengupta, Esha ^b   Ginger, David S ^b  

^a OSAKA MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTODEGRADATION; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SOLAR CELLS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; MATERIAL PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PERFORMANCE OF DEVICES; PHOTO-DECOMPOSITION; PHOTOINDUCED DEGRADATION;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84941194543     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06269     Document Type: Article

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