A New Way of Looking at Solar Cells
July 8, 2016
Advanced imaging technology reveals a bumpy surface of tiny, faceted grains on perovskite solar cells.
MIT Technology Review
A team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered that optimizing the structure and orientation of perovskites—crystals made up of tiny, faceted grains—increases the efficiency of solar cells by around 10%. According to Yang Yang, a leading alternative energy researcher at UCLA, researchers must now master the art of controlling the growth of perovskites so as to engineer the most efficient solar cells possible. Such a feat would mark an important milestone on the road to 100% renewable energy.
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