Assessment of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Antimony Sulfides for Earth-Abundant Photovoltaic Applications

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 5009-5014

  Yang, Ruo Xi ^a   Butler, Keith T ^a   Walsh, Aron ^a,b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

organic inorganic solar absorbers; perovskites; semiconductors; solar cells

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; D REGION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HYBRID MATERIALS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; PEROVSKITE; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLAR CELLS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANTIMONY SULFIDE; BINARY SULFIDES; COMPLEX COMPOUNDS; COORDINATION ENVIRONMENT; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC; ORGANIC-INORGANIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS;

SOLAR ABSORBERS;

EID: 84952012234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02555     Document Type: Article

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