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The ultimate goal of the solar-cell industry is to make inexpensive devices that are highly efficient at converting sunlight into electricity. The advent of perovskite semiconductors could be the key to reaching this goal. See Letter p.395

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Figure 1: Solar-power generator in Tokyo.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 11 September 2013.

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  1. Michael D. McGehee is in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA.,

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McGehee, M. Fast-track solar cells. Nature 501, 323–325 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12557

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