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Disorder control enhances ultrathin solar cells

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Homogenized AgBiS2 nanocrystals with enhanced light absorption have helped realize an ultrathin solar cell with a certified efficiency of 8.85%.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the optimized AgBiS2 ultrathin solar cell and the cation disorder homogenization of AgBiS2 nanocrystals.

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics, School of Physics, Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics & Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Xiaoyu Yang & Rui Zhu

  2. Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

    Rui Zhu

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

    Rui Zhu

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Yang, X., Zhu, R. Disorder control enhances ultrathin solar cells. Nat. Photon. 16, 176–177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-00965-5

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