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Perovskites rose to fame due to its rapid improvements in solar-cell conversion efficiencies, starting from 3.8% (in 2009) to 22.1% (in 2014) and exceeding 25% (in 2019) while silicon solar cells took several decades of intense research efforts to reach conversion efficiencies ~25%.
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