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

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 techn...

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

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 Supplie...

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...

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 rank...

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

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.