Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Ascent Solar Technologies, an U.S. maker of lightweight, flexible and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) remedies, has announced that it has actually appointed its Thornton production center as a Perovskite Center of Excellence (COE). Reliable immediately, the facility will be committed to the industrial commercialization of Ascent's patent-pending perovskite solar technologies that are supposedly demonstrating laboratory performances over 20%.

Researchers at China's Shaanxi Regular University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have actually designed a novel approach to reduce the formation of anions vacancy defects in halide perovskite solar cells. The team reported that the new strategy leads to greater performance and impressive stability.

The investment backers included venture capital firm TRIREC, solar company Banpu NEXT as well as power firm Equinor Ventures. The technology can process 4-6 metric lots of disposed of batteries on a daily basis.

The British unit of German solar programmer Belectric has been chosen to provide procedures as well as maintenance (O&M) solutions for an over 150-MWp portfolio of solar parks in the UK.

Scientists China's Zhengzhou University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have made a solar cell based on low-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper (LPDR) perovskite that is said to have improved provider transport residential properties.

A research team led by Prof. Xu Jixian from the University of Science and also Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed and fashioned a novel porous insulator contact (PIC) for perovskite solar cells. The PIC alleviated the non-radiative fee recombination result and also the matching solar cell accomplished a performance of up to 25.5%. The research was published in Science.

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Scientists at Huazhong University of Science and also Technology, Wuhan University of Technology as well as University of Toronto lately introduced a new strategy for producing more stable 3D/2D heterostructures, avoiding their destruction. Their approach is based on the intro of an added layer in between the structures; 3D as well as 2D perovskite layers.

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Hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) constructed from organic and also inorganic products are highly promising energy services that can help to decrease carbon emissions worldwide. In the last few years, these cells' power-conversion efficiencies (PCEs) have actually improved substantially, ultimately surpassing 25%.

Scientists from Skoltech (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and also Medicinal Chemistry and also Zhengzhou Research Institute of HIT have examined the toxicity of materials used in perovskite solar cells.

Nano-textured surface areas are an interesting strategy for maximizing the optical qualities for monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells. Researchers from Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) have actually checked out the growth of different textures of silicon surface areas making use of different industrial additives as well as their efficiency in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) and also SHJ-- perovskite tandem solar cells.

In the threatening problem of climate change, growing industrial crops on solar farms is a possibly efficient use of farming land that can both increase business food manufacturing and enhance solar panel efficiency as well as longevity, according to new Cornell study.

Scientists at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Chonnam National University and also Pohang University of Science and also Technology (POSTECH) have actually created a special perovskite solar cell that utilizes alkylammonium chloride (RACI) to regulate the development of defects in the perovskite layer.

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Pennsylvania State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that channeling ions into defined pathways in perovskite materials improves the stability and operational performance of perovskite solar cells. This breakthrough in sustainable energy news could revolutionize photovoltaic technology.