Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Switchable photovoltaic windows enabled by reversible photothermal complex dissociation from methylammonium lead iodide

  • Lance M. Wheeler,
  • David T. Moore,
  • Rachelle Ihly,
  • Noah J. Stanton,
  • Elisa M. Miller,
  • Robert C. Tenent,
  • Jeffrey L. Blackburn,
  • Nathan R. Neale

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01842-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Conventional smart windows with tunable transparency are based on electrochromic systems that consumes energy. Here Wheeler et al. demonstrate a halide perovskite based photo-switchable window that dynamically responds to sunlight and change colors via reversible phase transitions.