Temperature-Dependent Polarization in Field-Effect Transport and Photovoltaic Measurements of Methylammonium Lead Iodide

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 3565-3571

  Labram, John G ^a   Fabini, Douglas H ^a   Perry, Erin E ^a   Lehner, Anna J ^a   Wang, Hengbin ^a   Glaudell, Anne M ^a   Wu, Guang ^a   Evans, Hayden ^a   Buck, David ^b   Cotta, Robert ^b   Echegoyen, Luis ^b   Wudl, Fred ^a   Seshadri, Ram ^a   Chabinyc, Michael L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

(MA)PbI3< inf>; hybrid halide perovskite; ionic motion; low temperature; polarization; transistors

Indexed keywords

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HYBRID MATERIALS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POLARIZATION; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS;

HALIDE PEROVSKITES; HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; IONIC MOTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; PHOTOVOLTAIC MEASUREMENTS; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

EID: 84941763991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01669     Document Type: Article

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