A post-publication peer review of Zhu, H., Yang, W., Reo, Y., Zheng, G., Bai, S., Liu, A., Noh, Y.-Y. Tin perovskite transistors and complementary circuits based on A-site cation engineering. Nat. Electron. 6, 650-657, DOI:10.1038/s41928-023-01019-6 (2023), revealing a number of serious inconsistencies, disagreements, and apparent errors, affecting most of the key claims and conclusions of this paper.*
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