Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Impact of grain boundaries on efficiency and stability of organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites

  • Zhaodong Chu,
  • Mengjin Yang,
  • Philip Schulz,
  • Di Wu,
  • Xin Ma,
  • Edward Seifert,
  • Liuyang Sun,
  • Xiaoqin Li,
  • Kai Zhu,
  • Keji Lai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02331-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Probing the nanoscale photoconductivity of methylammonium lead triiodide is important for understanding the microstructures of the solar cell devices, but scanning probe methods suffer from sample degradation. Here Chu et al. solve the problem with noncontact microwave impedance microscopy.