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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 11, A56(2020)

Phase segregation in inorganic mixed-halide perovskites: from phenomena to mechanisms

Yutao Wang1, Xavier Quintana2, Jiyun Kim1, Xinwei Guan1, Long Hu1, Chun-Ho Lin1, Brendon Tyler Jones2, Weijian Chen3, Xiaoming Wen3, Hanwei Gao2,4、*, and Tom Wu1,5、*
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  • 1School of Materials Science and Engineering and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Futures Institute, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
  • 2Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
  • 3Centre for Translational Atomaterials, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia
  • 4e-mail: hanwei.gao@fsu.edu
  • 5e-mail: tom.wu@unsw.edu.au
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    Special Issue: PEROVSKITE PHOTONICS

    Received: Jul. 9, 2020

    Accepted: Sep. 1, 2020

    Published Online: Oct. 29, 2020

    The Author Email: Hanwei Gao (hanwei.gao@fsu.edu), Tom Wu (tom.wu@unsw.edu.au)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.402411

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