Water Infiltration in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite: Fast and Inconspicuous

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 7835-7841

  Müller, Christian ^a,b,c   Glaser, Tobias ^b,c   Plogmeyer, Marcel ^b,c   Sendner, Michael ^b,c   Döring, Sebastian ^a   Bakulin, Artem A ^d   Brzuska, Carlo ^e   Scheer, Roland ^e   Pshenichnikov, Maxim S ^f   Kowalsky, Wolfgang ^a,b,c   Pucci, Annemarie ^b,c   Lovrinčić, Robert ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c INNOVATIONLAB   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN BONDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LEAD; MOLECULES; SLOW LIGHT;

AMBIENT ENVIRONMENT; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; INFLUENCE OF WATER; METHYLAMMONIUM CATIONS; OXYGEN EXPOSURE; PROTON CONDUCTION; SLOW COMPONENT; WATER INFILTRATION;

INFILTRATION;

EID: 84948162007     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03883     Document Type: Article

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