Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Metal-Migration-Induced Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 6306-6314

  Domanski, Konrad ^a   Correa Baena, Juan Pablo ^b   Mine, Nicolas ^c   Nazeeruddin, Mohammad Khaja ^b   Abate, Antonio ^a,d   Saliba, Michael ^a   Tress, Wolfgang ^a   Hagfeldt, Anders ^b   Grätzel, Michael ^a  

^a Lab for Photonics and Interfaces   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

buffer layers; degradation; gold; metal electrodes; perovskite solar cells; secondary ion mass spectrometry; stability

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DEGRADATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODES; GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS; PEROVSKITE; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLAR CELLS; STABILITY; THERMAL STRESS;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; HOLE TRANSPORTING LAYERS; INDUCED DEGRADATION; IRREVERSIBLE DEGRADATION; LONG TERM STABILITY; METAL ELECTRODES; ORGANIC COMPONENTS; PEROVSKITE LAYERS;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84976573749     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02613     Document Type: Article

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