New Physical Deposition Approach for Low Cost Inorganic Hole Transport Layer in Normal Architecture of Durable Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 21807-21818

  Abdollahi Nejand, Bahram ^a   Ahmadi, Vahid ^a   Shahverdi, Hamid Reza ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

durable; inorganic hole transport material; low cost and temperature; planar perovskite solar cell; sputter deposited NiOx

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DEPOSITION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); HOLE MOBILITY; PEROVSKITE; TEMPERATURE;

DC REACTIVE MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; DURABLE; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS; LOW COSTS; MECHANICAL DAMAGES; PEROVSKITE STRUCTURES; SURFACE SHIELDING;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84944073107     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05477     Document Type: Article

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