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Jean‐Christophe Blancon , Hsinhan Tsai , Wanyi Nie , Constantinos C. Stoumpos , Laurent Pédesseau , Claudine Katan , Mikaël Képénékian , Chan Myae Myae Soe , Kannatassen Appavoo , Matthew Y. Sfeir , Sergei Tretiak , Pulickel M. Ajayan , Mercouri G. Kanatzidis , Jacky Even , Jared Crochet , Aditya D. Mohite ·

YOU? · · 2017 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4211 · OA: W2591676480

How perovskites have the edge Two-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites form quantum wells by sandwiching inorganic-organic perovskite layers used in photovoltaic devices between organic layers. Blancon et al. show that if the perovskite layer is more than two unit cells thick, photogenerated excitons undergo an unusual but highly efficient process for creating free carriers that can be harvested in photovoltaic devices (see the Perspective by Bakr and Mohammed). Lower-energy local states at the edges of the perovskite layer facilitate dissociation into electrons and holes that are well protected from recombination. Science , this issue p. 1288 ; see also p. 1260