Charge Transfer Dynamics between Carbon Nanotubes and Hybrid Organic Metal Halide Perovskite Films

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 418-425

  Schulz, Philip ^a   Dowgiallo, Anne Marie ^a   Yang, Mengjin ^a   Zhu, Kai ^a   Blackburn, Jeffrey L ^a   Berry, Joseph J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METAL HALIDES; NANOTUBES; ORGANOMETALLICS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; YARN;

CHARGE-TRANSFER DYNAMICS; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HALIDE PEROVSKITES; INTERFACIAL DIPOLES; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; SINGLEWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWCNT); TRANSIENT ABSORBANCE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84957565749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02721     Document Type: Article

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