Photoluminescence and electroluminescence imaging of perovskite solar cells

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1697-1705

  Hameiri, Ziv ^a   Mahboubi Soufiani, Arman ^a   Juhl, Mattias K ^a   Jiang, Liangcong ^b   Huang, Fuzhi ^b   Cheng, Yi Bing ^b   Kampwerth, Henner ^a   Weber, Juergen W ^c   Green, Martin A ^a   Trupke, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BT Imaging   (Australia)

Author keywords

electroluminescence; imaging; perovskite; photoluminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958026041     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2716     Document Type: Article

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