Highly Efficient Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells with Antireflection and Self-Cleaning Nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 10287-10295

  Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi ^a   Tsui, Kwong Hoi ^a   Zhang, Qianpeng ^a   He, Jin ^b   Yao, Yan ^c   Li, Dongdong ^d   Fan, Zhiyong ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

antireflection layer; flexible glass; perovskite solar cell; superhydrophobicity; thermal evaporation

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; FABRICATION; GLASS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL FILMS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUBSTRATES; THERMAL EVAPORATION; THERMAL EXPANSION; THIN FILMS;

ANTI-REFLECTION LAYERS; BUILDING-INTEGRATED PHOTOVOLTAICS; FLEXIBLE THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROLL-TO-ROLL FABRICATION; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; THERMAL EVAPORATION METHOD; THIN FILM PHOTOVOLTAICS;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84945931021     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04284     Document Type: Article

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