UW News
April 30, 2015
Engineering a better solar cell: UW research pinpoints defects in popular perovskites
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A new UW study demonstrates that perovskite materials — superefficient crystal structures that have recently taken the scientific community by storm — contain previously undiscovered flaws that can be engineered to improve solar cells and other devices even further.