Emission Enhancement and Intermittency in Polycrystalline Organolead Halide Perovskite Films
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Result and Discussion
3. Experimental Methods
3.1. Perovskite Film Fabrication for PL Experiment
3.2. Conventional PL Characterization
3.2.1. PLQE Measurements
3.2.2. Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting
3.3. PL Imaging Setup
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Li, C.; Zhong, Y.; Luna, C.A.M.; Unger, T.; Deichsel, K.; Gräser, A.; Köhler, J.; Köhler, A.; Hildner, R.; Huettner, S. Emission Enhancement and Intermittency in Polycrystalline Organolead Halide Perovskite Films. Molecules 2016, 21, 1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules21081081
Li C, Zhong Y, Luna CAM, Unger T, Deichsel K, Gräser A, Köhler J, Köhler A, Hildner R, Huettner S. Emission Enhancement and Intermittency in Polycrystalline Organolead Halide Perovskite Films. Molecules. 2016; 21(8):1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules21081081
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Cheng, Yu Zhong, Carlos Andres Melo Luna, Thomas Unger, Konstantin Deichsel, Anna Gräser, Jürgen Köhler, Anna Köhler, Richard Hildner, and Sven Huettner. 2016. "Emission Enhancement and Intermittency in Polycrystalline Organolead Halide Perovskite Films" Molecules 21, no. 8: 1081. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules21081081