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Record-breaking photovoltaic (PV) cells: understanding the current and future state of solar technology

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Over the last several decades, scientists and engineers at national labs, universities, and private companies continue to explore and develop new types of cells and push the capabilities of existing ones, because an ideal technology is yet to be developed. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) maintains a plot of compiled values of highest confirmed conversion efficiencies for research cells, from 1976 to the present, for a range of photovoltaic technologies. IEEE Spectrum recently partnered with three of the world’s leading independent test labs to create an interactive and updated history of record-breaking photovoltaic (PV) cells. While the full charts are...

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Recent advances in solid-state lithium conductors and presentation slides from Professor Gerbrand Ceder at ECS 2016

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Professor Gerbrand Ceder from UC Berkeley and LBNL, recently presented a comprehensive talk on the interfacial reactions between electrodes and solid state electrolytes at the ECS Meeting in Honolulu on Oct 6, 2016. MSE Supplies is a leading supplier of solid state Lithium ion conductors, including the materials highlighted in the following chart, such as Li7P3S11 and Li10GeP2S12.   Recent advances in solid-state lithium conductors.   Good understanding of what creates high Li-conductivity MSE Supplies is a leading supplier of solid state Lithium ion conductors, including the materials highlighted in the following chart, such as Li7P3S11 and Li10GeP2S12.    

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Understanding of Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs) Could Lead to Novel Solar Cells

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In a discovery that could have profound implications for future energy policy, scientists at Columbia University have demonstrated that it is possible to manufacture solar cells that are far more efficient than existing silicon-based cells by using a new kind of material. MSE Supplies is a leading supplier of FTO and ITO glass substrates for solar cells research.  Custom patterns can be fabricated based on customer provided drawings.  The team, led by Xiaoyang Zhu, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University, focused its efforts on a new class of solar cell material known as hybrid organic inorganic perovskites (HOIPs). Their results,...

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2016 List of The 150 Most Cited Scholars in Energy Research by Elsevier Scopus Data

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These most cited scholars are either the corresponding author or the first author of their publications.  Among all researchers worldwide, only the top 150 in the field of Energy Research are included in the following list ranked by the total citations of their papers. The citation data are based on the Elsevier Scopus database.  MSE Supplies (www.msesupplies.com) has compiled the ranking data and listed the names and institutions of these highly cited scholars. MSE Supplies is a leading supplier of high quality materials and equipment for advanced materials research and manufacturing.     When ranked by the number of highly cited scholars, the Technical University of Denmark...

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Perovskite Solar Cells >20% Efficiency Enabled by A Vacuum Flash–assisted Solution Process

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EPFL's Michael Graetzel and his team found that, by briefly reducing the pressure while fabricating perovskite crystals, they were able to achieve the highest performance ever measured for larger-size perovskite solar cells, reaching over 20% efficiency and matching the performance of conventional thin-film solar cells of similar sizes. Their results are published in Science.

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