Impact of Capacitive Effect and Ion Migration on the Hysteretic Behavior of Perovskite Solar Cells

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 4693-4700

  Chen, Bo ^a   Yang, Mengjin ^b   Zheng, Xiaojia ^a   Wu, Congcong ^a   Li, Wenle ^a   Yan, Yongke ^a   Bisquert, Juan ^c,d   Garcia Belmonte, Germà ^c   Zhu, Kai ^b   Priya, Shashank ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

JV hysteresis; perovskite solar cells; photocurrent density'voltage; photovoltaics; power conversion efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; HYSTERESIS; IONS; PEROVSKITE; PHOTOCURRENTS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CHARGE COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODE POLARIZATIONS; INTERFACIAL BARRIERS; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; PSEUDO STEADY STATE; VOLTAGE CONDITIONING;

SOLAR CELLS;

CALCIUM DERIVATIVE; ION; OXIDE; PEROVSKITE; TITANIUM;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN; SOLAR ENERGY;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRICITY; HUMANS; IONS; OXIDES; SOLAR ENERGY; TITANIUM;

EID: 84948985263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02229     Document Type: Article

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