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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFB4200101), the Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Project, China (No. 2022JBGS0036) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 52325306, 11834011, 11974242, and 22025505).

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  1. Institute of Solar Energy, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

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    Yixin Zhao

  3. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Feng Liu

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Shen, W., Zhao, Y. & Liu, F. Highlights of mainstream solar cell efficiencies in 2023. Front. Energy 18, 8–15 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11708-024-0937-5

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