Enhanced Organo-Metal Halide Perovskite Photoluminescence from Nanosized Defect-Free Crystallites and Emitting Sites

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 4171-4177

  Tian, Yuxi ^a   Merdasa, Aboma ^a   Unger, Eva ^a   Abdellah, Mohamed ^a   Zheng, Kaibo ^a   Mckibbin, Sarah ^a   Mikkelsen, Anders ^a   Pullerits, Tõnu ^a   Yartsev, Arkady ^a   Sundström, Villy ^a   Scheblykin, Ivan G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

EQUI-MOLAR SOLUTION; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; MECHANICAL GRINDING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PEROVSKITE CRYSTAL; SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUPER RESOLUTION;

METAL HALIDES;

EID: 84944391421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02033     Document Type: Article

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