Recombination Kinetics in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites: Excitons, Free Charge, and Subgap States

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Stranks, Samuel D ^a   Burlakov, Victor M ^a   Leijtens, Tomas ^a   Ball, James M ^a   Goriely, Alain ^a   Snaith, Henry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRAPPING; EFFICIENCY; EXCITONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CHARGE GENERATION; EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RECOMBINATION KINETICS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84951073132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.034007     Document Type: Article

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