Highly Efficient Solar Cells Possible With Hybrid Perovskite Breakthrough
A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology. Solar…
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Important Breakthrough in Perovskite Solar Cells
Rice University materials scientists use inorganic ingredients to limit defects, retain efficiency. Rice University scientists believe they’ve overcome a major hurdle keeping perovskite-based solar cells…
New Dual-Layer Solar Cell Sets Record for Efficiently Generating Power
Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film solar cell that generates more energy from sunlight than typical…
Flexo-Photovoltaic Effect Squeezes More Power Out of Solar Cells
Physicists at the University of Warwick have published new research in the Journal Science that could literally squeeze more power out of solar cells by…
Hybrid Perovskites Improve Solar Cell Efficiency
Photons with energy higher than the ‘band gap’ of the semiconductor absorbing them give rise to what are known as hot electrons. The extra energy…
Guanidinium Helps Stabilizes Perovskite Solar Cells
Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under full-sunlight testing conditions. The study, carried out by EPFL, is…
DMSO Treatment Could Transform Solar Cells, Boosts Efficiency
Researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have discovered a modification to perovskite solar cells, which could lead to a new generation…
Nanoscientists Improve the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
UCLA researchers have taken a step towards next-generation perovskite solar cells by using a metal oxide “sandwich.” The new design extends the cell’s effective life…
