Pinhole-free and surface-nanostructured niox film by room-Temperature solution process for high-performance flexible perovskite solar cells with good stability and reproducibility

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1503-1511

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Cheng, Jiaqi ^a   Lin, Francis ^b   He, Hexiang ^c   Mao, Jian ^a   Wong, Kam Sing ^c   Jen, Alex K Y ^b   Choy, Wallace C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Flexible solar cells; Hole transport layer; Niox nanostructure; Perovskite solar cells; Room temperature

Indexed keywords

HOLE MOBILITY; ITO GLASS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PEROVSKITE; SOLAR CELLS;

DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FABRICATION PROCESS; FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELLS; HOLE TRANSPORT LAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MORPHOLOGY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ROLL-TO-ROLL FABRICATION; SHOCKLEY-READ-HALL RECOMBINATIONS;

PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 84989901339     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07043     Document Type: Article

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