High-performance planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells: Preserving long charge carrier diffusion lengths and interfacial engineering

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1749-1758

  Bai, Sai ^a   Wu, Zhongwei ^b   Wu, Xiaojing ^c   Jin, Yizheng ^a   Zhao, Ni ^c   Chen, Zhihui ^a   Mei, Qingqing ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Ye, Zhizhen ^a   Song, Tao ^b   Liu, Ruiyuan ^b   Lee, Shuit tong ^b   Sun, Baoquan ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

charge carrier diffusion; large area devices; lengths; perovskite solar cells; planar heterojunction; ZnO nanocrystal films

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027942638     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0534-8     Document Type: Article

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