Triple-cation perovskite solar cells for visible light communications

Natalie A. Mica; Rui Bian; Pavlos Manousiadis; Lethy K. Jagadamma; Iman Tavakkolnia; Harald Haas; Graham A. Turnbull; Ifor D. W. Samuel

doi:10.1364/PRJ.393647

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 Haas^2,3、*, Graham A. Turnbull^1,4、*, and Ifor D. W. Samuel^1,5、*

Author Affiliations

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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