Surfactant-assisted doctor-blading-printed FAPbBr3 films for efficient semitransparent perovskite solar cells

Hangkai YING; Yifan LIU; Yuxi DOU; Jibo ZHANG; Zhenli WU; Qi ZHANG; Yi-Bing CHENG; Jie ZHONG

doi:10.1007/s12200-020-1031-1

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