Perovskites have emerged as an exciting material when it comes to next-generation solar cells, but they aren’t without their problems. While they promise great leaps in efficiency, keeping all ...

Solar cells are constantly improving on the road to maximum efficiency. Now, three records have been broken by two different devices, including one that pushes the highest overall solar conversion ...

The conversion efficiency of the solar cells or the power of the photovoltaic modules are measured under the standard conditions: AM 1.5G spectrum, 1000 W/m2, and the temperature at 25 °C. However, in ...

Scientists have set a new efficiency record for perovskite-silicon solar cells. They've almost reached a critical "proof of concept" milestone of 30 percent, clocking 29.15 percent in this experiment.

Where an ideal single-junction cell has a maximum efficiency of 33.16% in theory, a tandem or multi-junction solar cell with “infinite” junctions could hit an efficiency of up to 86.8%.

Mapping the energy level alignment at donor/acceptor interfaces in non-fullerene organic solar cells. Nature Communications, 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29702-w ...

Doping refers to the distortion of a crystal structure by introducing an impurity. In the case of polycrystalline solar cells, this can be done by melting together crystals called CZTSSe with ...

The low-light functionality of a solar cell is primarily reliant on the shunt resistance and series resistance of the cells, which are the resistance related to contacts at the top and the bottom of ...

New technology for cheaper, more efficient solar cells Date: February 21, 2011 Source: Stanford University Summary: Applying an organic layer less than a nanometer thick improves the efficiency of ...

Efficient solar cells are close to a reality, having reached 40 percent efficiency or better. Unfortunately, there is a small fly in the ointment: the cells are really expensive to make, and ...

Nevertheless, light trapping surfaces look a promising way to increase the efficiency of thin film solar cells–provided somebody can work out how to make them cheaply enough.