Solar Technology & PV R&D News

A research study team led by Prof. Meng Qingbo from the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) as well as Prof. Xin Hao from Nanjing University of Posts as well as Telecommunications has actually reported 13.8% accredited effectiveness of emerging kesterite solar cells. The research study was released in Nature Power on April 13.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering are making use of machine learning to identify new materials for high-efficiency solar cells. Making use of high-throughput experiments and also machine learning-based formulas, they have actually found it is possible to anticipate the products' dynamic behavior with really high accuracy, without the demand to carry out as many experiments.

Scientists at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and also Technology (KAUST) have actually established a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell with the world's highest possible power conversion effectiveness (PCE) of 33.2%, according to an announcement on Monday.

Perovskite solar films developed by a graduate student in the Department of Physics at UC Merced while on an internship at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) not just survived 10 months in space with minimal degradation, but the little damage they did incur was greater than 90% relatively easy to fix.

Scientists from China's Taiyuan University of Technology and Lund University in Sweden have demonstrated a perovskite nanoplatelet laser on a diamond substrate that can efficiently dissipate heat generated throughout optical pumping.

Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have created a narrowband (NB) imaging sensor combining R/G/B perovskite NB sensor array (mimicking the R/G/B photoreceptors in the eye) with a neuromorphic algorithm (mimicking the intermediate neural network of the human visual system) for high-fidelity panchromatic imaging.

By utilizing a new method, rare-earth elements can be successfully recouped from thin-film solar cells. This is revealed by new research study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The method is additionally extra environmentally friendly than previous methods of recycling and also leads the way for more versatile and extremely effective solar cells.

Newcastle University researchers have actually created environmentally-friendly, high-efficiency photovoltaic cells that harness ambient light to power internet of Things (IoT) devices.

A research study group, led by Prof. GUO Xin and Prof. LI Can from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has actually unveiled the origin of the stability of Dion-- Jacobson (DJ) phase two-dimensional (2D) perovskite materials.

Researchers from Turkey's Konya Technical University have shown that sepiolite, a normally taking place clay substance, can be included in perovskite precursor materials, and also develop a scaffold layer that can improve the performance as well as stability of solar cells. The researchers think that this substance could be valuable in developing reproducible processes for the manufacturing of large-area perovskite solar cells.

A team of scientists from the University of Toronto has developed a triple-junction perovskite solar cell with record performance by getting over an essential restriction of previous layouts.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have actually shown that self-powered polycrystalline perovskite photodetectors can equal the industrial silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) for photon counting.

Australia's change to renewables is gathering speed, however there's a looming problem with storage We will certainly require much more long-duration storage to get us with the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system.

Global experts on solar power highly urge a commitment to the continued development of photovoltaic (PV) production and release to power the world, arguing that lowballing projections for PV growth while waiting for an agreement on various other energy paths or the emergence of technical final miracles "is no longer an alternative."

Ongoing obstacles in solar cell manufacturing may partly discuss why non-renewable power resources-- such as coal, oil, as well as natural gas-- have eclipsed current optoelectronic gadgets.