By James Wimberley News from the frontier of perovskite solar cell research: A team at China’s Huazhong University in Wuhan, working with pioneer Michael Grätzel at Lausanne, have fabricated cells without a hole transport layer, and done it by dripping a solution of the ingredients on to a carbon mesh. The cells … [continued]
By Sam Stranks A new material has entered the emerging low-cost photovoltaics arena and is threatening to blow much of the existing competition away. Power conversion efficiencies (how efficiently incident sunlight is converted to electrical power) in perovskite-based solar cells have increased from a starting point of 3.8% in 2009 to a staggering … [continued]
NREL Senior Scientist Kai Zhu applies a perovskite precursor solution to make a perovskite film.
Image Credit: Dennis Schroeder
Ever heard of a perovskite solar cell? Probably not. But you have now, and very likely will be hearing more and more about them in the coming years, based on the very encouraging findings of a recent analysis by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). While solar cells … [continued]
This article was first published on Green Building Elements. A new efficiency record for dye-sensitized solar cells has been achieved by researchers at EPFL in Switzerland — the new record of 15% has now been achieved thanks to a new fabrication process created by the researchers. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) … [continued]
Oxford PV have announced that they have achieved a new efficiency high-watermark for their new photovoltaic technology of 15.4%, continuing the march towards scale-up and commercialisation. Spun off from Oxford University in an attempt to put all of founder Dr. Henry Snaith’s intellectual property under one roof and solve the … [continued]
