Citation: Lucangelo Dimesso, Michael Wussler, Thomas Mayer, Eric Mankel, Wolfram Jaegermann. Inorganic alkali lead iodide semiconducting APbI3 (A = Li, Na, K, Cs) and NH4PbI3 films prepared from solution: Structure, morphology, and electronic structure[J]. AIMS Materials Science, 2016, 3(3): 737-755. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2016.3.737
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