Excitons versus free charges in organo-lead tri-halide perovskites

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  D'Innocenzo, Valerio ^a,b   Grancini, Giulia ^a   Alcocer, Marcelo J P ^a,b   Kandada, Ajay Ram Srimath ^a   Stranks, Samuel D ^c   Lee, Michael M ^c   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^a,b   Snaith, Henry J ^c   Petrozza, Annamaria ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALIDE; ORGANOLEAD COMPOUND; PEROVSKITE;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HALIDE; LEAD; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RESEARCH WORK; SOLAR POWER; SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FUEL CELL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; EXCITON; EXCITONIC SOLAR CELL; IONIZATION; MASS ACTION; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARIMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; CRYSTAL; SPECIES;

EID: 84944034560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4586     Document Type: Article

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