Phonon-Electron Scattering Limits Free Charge Mobility in Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskites

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 4991-4996

  Karakus, Melike ^a,b   Jensen, Søren A ^a,b   D'Angelo, Francesco ^a   Turchinovich, Dmitry ^a   Bonn, Mischa ^a   Cánovas, Enrique ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

MAPbI3(Cl); photoconductivity; time resolved photoluminescence; time resolved terahertz spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; FREQUENCY BANDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PEROVSKITE; PHONONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY;

DEFORMATION POTENTIAL; FREE CHARGE CARRIERS; IMPURITY SCATTERING; MAPBI3(CL); PHOTOCONDUCTIVE RESPONSE; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY SPECTRUM; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84951944401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02485     Document Type: Article

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