Optical Transitions in Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: Ellipsometry, Density Functional Theory, and Quantum Efficiency Analyses for CH3NH3PbI3

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Shirayama, Masaki ^a   Kadowaki, Hideyuki ^a   Miyadera, Tetsuhiko ^b   Sugita, Takeshi ^b   Tamakoshi, Masato ^a   Kato, Masato ^a   Fujiseki, Takemasa ^a   Murata, Daisuke ^a   Hara, Shota ^a   Murakami, Takurou N ^b   Fujimoto, Shohei ^a   Chikamatsu, Masayuki ^b   Fujiwara, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; COPPER ALLOYS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM ALLOYS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM ALLOYS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; PEROVSKITE; PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR ALLOYS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CARRIER DIFFUSION LENGTH; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON-PHOTON INTERACTIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; PHOTOCARRIER GENERATION; TRANSITION MATRIX ELEMENTS; VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84958263014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.5.014012     Document Type: Article

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