Interface and Composition Analysis on Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 47, 2015, Pages 26176-26183

  Matteocci, Fabio ^a   Busby, Yan ^b   Pireaux, Jean Jacques ^b   Divitini, Giorgio ^c   Cacovich, Stefania ^c   Ducati, Caterina ^c   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EDX STEM; filaments; perovskite solar cells; ToF SIMS; XPS

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; FILAMENTS (LAMP); HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYBRID MATERIALS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PEROVSKITE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLAR CELLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ANALYTICAL SCANNING-TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; COMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DEPTH RESOLVED IMAGING; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; FABRICATION PROCEDURE; NANOMETER RESOLUTIONS; TIME OF FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOF SIMS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84948746678     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b08038     Document Type: Article

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