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Hysteresis Characteristics and Device Stability

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Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaics

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The continuous and skyrocketing rise in power conversion efficiency (PCE) of the organometal halide perovskite solar cells (J Am Chem Soc 131:6050–6051, (2009) [1], Science 338:643–647, (2012) [2], Science 345:542–546, (2014) [3]) has attracted enormous attention recently.

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