Microstructures of Organometal Trihalide Perovskites for Solar Cells: Their Evolution from Solutions and Characterization

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 4827-4839

  Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a   Game, Onkar S ^a   Pang, Shuping ^b   Padture, Nitin P ^a  

^a Brown University   (United States)

^b QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FILMS; MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEATION; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

PHOTOVOLTAICS; SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; THIN FILM MICROSTRUCTURES;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84949035989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01843     Document Type: Article

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