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Title: Radiative Thermal Annealing/in Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide: Effect of Antisolvent, Humidity, Annealing Temperature Profile, and Film Substrates

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3]
  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
  2. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
  3. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
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Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1393379
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1390308
Report Number(s):
NREL/JA-5K00-68900
Journal ID: ISSN 0897-4756
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308; EE0005951; AC02-76SF00515; AC36-08G028308
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Chemistry of Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; XRD; perovskites; solar

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Dou, Benjia, Pool, Vanessa L., Toney, Michael F., and van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. Radiative Thermal Annealing/in Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide: Effect of Antisolvent, Humidity, Annealing Temperature Profile, and Film Substrates. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01467.
Dou, Benjia, Pool, Vanessa L., Toney, Michael F., & van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. Radiative Thermal Annealing/in Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide: Effect of Antisolvent, Humidity, Annealing Temperature Profile, and Film Substrates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01467
Dou, Benjia, Pool, Vanessa L., Toney, Michael F., and van Hest, Maikel F. A. M. Mon . "Radiative Thermal Annealing/in Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide: Effect of Antisolvent, Humidity, Annealing Temperature Profile, and Film Substrates". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01467. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1393379.
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title = {Radiative Thermal Annealing/in Situ X-ray Diffraction Study of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide: Effect of Antisolvent, Humidity, Annealing Temperature Profile, and Film Substrates},
author = {Dou, Benjia and Pool, Vanessa L. and Toney, Michael F. and van Hest, Maikel F. A. M.},
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doi = {10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b01467},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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