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Organolead halide perovskites: a family of promising semiconductor materials for solar cells

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Great attention has recently been drawn to developing cost-effective, high efficiency solar cells to meet the ever increasing demand for clean energy. We have most recently witnessed a breakthrough and a rapid development in solid state, hybrid solar cells using organolead halide perovskites as light harvesters. These semiconductors can not only serve as sensitizer in solid state sensitized solar cells with efficiency up to unprecedented 15 %, but also function as both light absorber and hole conductor (or electron conductor) at the same time to display power conversion efficiency above 10 %. In this review, we will introduce their operation mechanism, structure, and especially the development of the organolead halide perovskite based solar cells. Based on the achievements that have been made to date, solid state photovoltaic device with superior performance than the present one is highly expected.

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This work was partly supported by the “Hundred Talents Program” from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian, 116023, China

    Wen-Hua Zhang & Bing Cai

  2. Carbon Research Laboratory, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Energy Materials and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Bing Cai

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Zhang, WH., Cai, B. Organolead halide perovskites: a family of promising semiconductor materials for solar cells. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 2092–2101 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0259-9

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