The Importance of Moisture in Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Film Fabrication

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 9380-9393

  Eperon, Giles E ^a   Habisreutinger, Severin N ^a   Leijtens, Tomas ^b   Bruijnaers, Bardo J ^c   Van Franeker, Jacobus J ^c,d   Dequilettes, Dane W ^e   Pathak, Sandeep ^a   Sutton, Rebecca J ^a   Grancini, Giulia ^b   Ginger, David S ^e   Janssen, Rene A J ^c   Petrozza, Annamaria ^b   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

defects; fabrication; humidity; moisture; perovskite; photovoltaics; solar cell

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DEFECTS; FABRICATION; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; HYGROSCOPIC NATURE; PEROVSKITE LATTICE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84942280024     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03626     Document Type: Article

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