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PEROVSKITE DEVICES

From window to solar cell and back

Nature Materials volume 17, pages 218–219 (2018)Cite this article

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Two independent research groups report on progress towards making every window a potential solar cell, using perovskite materials.

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Fig. 1: Perovskite solar cells integrated into smart windows.

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