Structural and optical properties of methylammonium lead iodide across the tetragonal to cubic phase transition: Implications for perovskite solar cells

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 155-163

  Quarti, Claudio ^a,b   Mosconi, Edoardo ^a   Ball, James M ^c   D'Innocenzo, Valerio ^c,d   Tao, Chen ^c   Pathak, Sandeep ^e   Snaith, Henry J ^e   Petrozza, Annamaria ^c   De Angelis, Filippo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PEROVSKITE;

AB INITIO SIMULATIONS; CAR-PARRINELLO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; HIGH TEMPERATURE PHASE; PICOSECOND TIME SCALE; SPECTRAL PHOTOCURRENT; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE EVOLUTION;

SOLAR CELLS;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LEAD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PEROVSKITE; PHASE TRANSITION; SOLAR POWER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84953384968     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5ee02925b     Document Type: Article

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