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Avoiding buried voids The buried interfaces of perovskite solar cells are difficult to alter after synthesis. During manufacture, Chen et…
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Evening out the heat The conversion of precursors into the active layer of perovskite solar cells normally occurs by heating…
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IMAGE: A transparent phosphate crystal, which incorporated into solar cells, can instantaneously immobilize the lead in case of failure and block…
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Suppressing nucleation over large areas Although formamidinium-based lead iodide (PbI2) perovskites have a favorable bandgap and good thermal stability, the…
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IMAGE: A cheaper perovskite-based semiconductor material that is free of toxic lead and can absorb a wide range of visible light…
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Tougher solar cell interfaces The low formation energies of the active layers in perovskite solar cells lead to low-toughness materials…
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IMAGE: Researchers from the Institute for Applied Physics (IAP) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at TU Dresden developed…
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Perovskite synthesis out in the open Although methods have been developed that create the photoactive black perovskite phase of formamidinium…
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IMAGE: Pressure-reduced exciton binding energy and enhanced photoconductivity in 2D Cs2PbI2Cl2. view more Credit: Xujie Lü HPSTAR scientists Dr. Songhao Guo…
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