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Perovskite: abundant, cheap, printable solar cells demonstrated, ready to generate power

May 31, 2023 by David Beynon

Laboratories around the world are racing to make printable perovskite solar cells, produced in abundance and so thin they can be wrapped around almost anything. It’s a huge advantage over the typical silicon cell that is relatively big and fragile. And perovskite is much less expensive to produce. David Beynon at Swansea University describes research there that has demonstrated how a roll of plastic film can be loaded into a printing press to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: cells, chemistry, costs, efficiency, film, innovation, perovskite, printed, silicon, slotdie, solar, thin

Comparing the efficiency and progress of the 5 leading Solar PV cell technologies

December 7, 2022 by Wayne Hicks and Harrison Dreves

NREL’s “Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart” allows researchers to easily compare the performance of specific PV technologies, stretching back 50 years. It’s regularly updated and is free to use, explains Wayne Hicks and Harrison Dreves at NREL. A new “interactive” version is now available. The focus is on crystalline silicon cells, single-junction gallium arsenide cells, multijunction cells, thin films, and emerging PV. For example, you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: arsenide, crystalline, efficiency, gallium, multijunction, perovskite, PV, silicon, solar, ThinFilm

Perovskites: the next generation of solar cells and lighting?

September 23, 2020 by Sam Stranks

Enthusiasm about the discoveries being made about perovskite materials is spreading, explains Sam Stranks at the University of Cambridge. Perovskite solar cells hit 25.2% efficiency in 2019, not far off crystalline silicon cells at 26.7%. Research is suggesting that figure could rise higher still. Perovskite can be “tuned” to absorb particular frequencies of light, allowing different layers of perovskites to absorb different and therefore more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Renewables Tagged With: efficiency, electricity, LEDs, lighting, perovskite, silicon, solar

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