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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 8, A16(2020)

Triple-cation perovskite solar cells for visible light communications Spotlight on Optics

Natalie A. Mica1, Rui Bian2, Pavlos Manousiadis1, Lethy K. Jagadamma1, Iman Tavakkolnia2, Harald Haas2,3、*, Graham A. Turnbull1,4、*, and Ifor D. W. Samuel1,5、*
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  • 1Organic Semiconductor Centre, SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
  • 2LiFi Research and Development Centre, Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK
  • 3e-mail: H.Haas@ed.ac.uk
  • 4e-mail: gat@st-andrews.ac.uk
  • 5e-mail: idws@st-andrews.ac.uk
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    Special Issue: PEROVSKITE PHOTONICS

    Received: Apr. 3, 2020

    Accepted: May. 25, 2020

    Published Online: Jul. 8, 2020

    The Author Email: Harald Haas (H.Haas@ed.ac.uk), Graham A. Turnbull (gat@st-andrews.ac.uk), Ifor D. W. Samuel (idws@st-andrews.ac.uk)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.393647

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