Giant Light-Emission Enhancement in Lead Halide Perovskites by Surface Oxygen Passivation

Dylan Lu1,2, Ye Zhang1,2, Minliang Lai1

  • 1Department of Chemistry , University of California , Berkeley , California 94720 , United States.

Nano Letters
|September 29, 2018
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