Perovskite films, which combine organic and inorganic materials, have been under suspicion by scientists since 2009 as a potential material for solar panel manufacturing. In contrast to silicon wafers, perovskites are extremely thin films with a particular crystal structure that is efficient, lightweight, and inexpensive.
Solar panels are not just for rooftops; some buildings have these energy-generating devices covering every inch of their exterior.
A group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal ACS Energy Letters that demonstrated the feasibility of using the van der Waals stacking (vdWS) strategy to overcome the inefficiencies of flexible perovskite solar cells (f-PSCs).
The energy sector is a complex industry, with multiple logistic processes which can potentially impact the efficient delivery of alternative energy technologies to both domestic and commercial customers. Now, a new paper in the journal Energies has analyzed these processes, providing a basis for future research in this field.
A new material can make solar cells a thousand times thinner than today's silicon solar cells. This material is a hybrid organic–inorganic crystal called halide perovskite. Now, a novel approach allows scientists to watch changes in the material's structure and functional properties at the same time as the material solidifies into a thin film from solution.
Researchers from KAUST discovered that adding a metal fluoride layer to multilayered perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells can stop charge recombination and improve performance.
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a prototype for fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules. These modules have an efficiency of up to 19.1 percent with an aperture area of 12.25 square centimeters.
In a paper recently published in the open-access journal ACS Energy Letters, researchers reviewed the use of perovskite-based photovoltaics (PV) for space applications. Additionally, the impact of the space environment on the type of PV components and their architecture was considered to discuss the extra-terrestrial potential of perovskite solar cells (PSCs).
A dependable and eco-friendly method of producing electricity is solar photovoltaics. Perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar modules made industrially, supplied by Oxford PV, have been examined for the first time in a study of their lifecycle environmental effects.
For the first time, an efficiency of 30% for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells has been exceeded thanks to a joint effort led by scientists at EPFL’s Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory in partnership with the renowned innovation center, CSEM.
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