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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, Llc, Golden, CO (US);
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, CN;
Kai Zhu, Littleton, CO (US);
Yixin Zhao, Shanghai, CN;
Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
An aspect of the present invention is a method that includes contacting a metal halide and a first alkylammonium halide in a solvent to form a solution and maintaining the solution at a first temperature, resulting in the formation of at least one alkylammonium halide perovskite crystal, where the metal halide includes a first halogen and a metal, the first alkylammonium halide includes the first halogen, the at least one alkylammonium halide perovskite crystal includes the metal and the first halogen, and the first temperature is above about 21° C.