Hot-carrier cooling and photoinduced refractive index changes in organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Price, Michael B ^a   Butkus, Justinas ^b   Jellicoe, Tom C ^a   Sadhanala, Aditya ^a   Briane, Anouk ^b   Halpert, Jonathan E ^b   Broch, Katharina ^a   Hodgkiss, Justin M ^b   Friend, Richard H ^a   Deschler, Felix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALIDE; LEAD; PEROVSKITE;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; HALIDE; LEAD; LIGHT EFFECT; PEROVSKITE; REFLECTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXCITATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHONON; REFRACTION INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 84942587144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9420     Document Type: Article

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