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Solar cells: Stabilizing tin-based perovskites

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Tin-based perovskite solar cells are less toxic than their lead-based counterparts, but suffer from severe stability issues due to the susceptibility of tin to oxidation. Now, a CsSnI3 perovskite solar cell with a SnCl2 additive is shown to exhibit remarkable stability.

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  1. Kai Shum and Anna Tsatskina are at the Photonics Laboratory, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11210, USA.,

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Shum, K., Tsatskina, A. Solar cells: Stabilizing tin-based perovskites. Nat Energy 1, 16188 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2016.188

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