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Perovskite solar cells

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The dream of printing highly efficient solar cells is closer than ever to being realized. Solvent engineering has enabled the deposition of uniform perovskite semiconductor films that yield greater than 15% power-conversion efficiency.

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Figure 1: The world record power-conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells over time.
Figure 2: The hysteresis problem in perovskite solar cells.

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  1. Michael D. McGehee is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA,

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