Detection of X-ray photons by solution-processed lead halide perovskites

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 444-449

  Yakunin, Sergii ^a,b   Sytnyk, Mykhailo ^a   Kriegner, Dominik ^a   Shrestha, Shreetu ^c   Richter, Moses ^c   Matt, Gebhard J ^c   Azimi, Hamed ^c   Brabec, Christoph J ^c,d   Stangl, Julian ^a   Kovalenko, Maksym V ^b,e   Heiss, Wolfgang ^a,c,d  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d Energie Campus Nürnberg ^*  (Germany)

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

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EID: 85027918185     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.82     Document Type: Article

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