Heterovalent Dopant Incorporation for Bandgap and Type Engineering of Perovskite Crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 295-301

  Abdelhady, Ahmed L ^a,b   Saidaminov, Makhsud I ^a   Murali, Banavoth ^a   Adinolfi, Valerio ^c   Voznyy, Oleksandr ^c   Katsiev, Khabiboulakh ^a   Alarousu, Erkki ^a   Comin, Riccardo ^c   Dursun, Ibrahim ^a   Sinatra, Lutfan ^a   Sargent, Edward H ^c   Mohammed, Omar F ^a   Bakr, Osman M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY GAP; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

DOPANT INCORPORATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INTRINSIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAJORITY CHARGE CARRIERS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PEROVSKITE CRYSTAL; RETROGRADE SOLUBILITY; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

PEROVSKITE;

EID: 84955491599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02681     Document Type: Article

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