Improved air stability of perovskite solar cells via solution-processed metal oxide transport layers

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 75-81

  You, Jingbi ^a   Meng, Lei ^a   Song, Tze Bin ^a   Guo, Tzung Fang ^b   Chang, Wei Hsuan ^a   Hong, Ziruo ^a   Chen, Huajun ^a   Zhou, Huanping ^a   Chen, Qi ^a   Liu, Yongsheng ^a   De Marco, Nicholas ^a   Yang, Yang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; TIN OXIDES; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

CHARGE TRANSPORT LAYER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT LAYERS; NORMAL CONDITION; PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; SOLUTION-PROCESSED; SUSTAINED OPERATIONS; TRANSPORT LAYERS;

SOLAR CELLS;

GLASS; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; LEAD; METAL OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; NICKEL; OXYGEN; PEROVSKITE; WATER; ZINC OXIDE NANOPARTICLE;

AIR; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENERAL DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84954397484     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.230     Document Type: Article

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